KwaMashu is one of Durban’s first townships; it was established in 1959 because of the Group Areas Act. Most of the people who live within the borders of KwaMashu originally come from Umkhumbane (Cato Manor). People were removed from Umkhumbane during the apartheid regime in 1950’s. The Group Areas Act was a system used by the apartheid government to separate Indians, Coloureds and Africans who lived together in places such as Umkhumbane in Durban, Sophiatown, in Johannesburg and District Six, in Cape Town. Before the establishment of the township the area was a sugar cane plantation owned by Marshall Campbell whom the township was named after. 17 Lala ngamathumba ophayo egolide amaFilisti awabuyisela abe ngumnikelo wecala e Nkosini, eleAshidodi elilodwa w , eleGaza elilodwa x , eleAshikeloni elilodwa y , eleGathi elilodwa z , eleEkhironi elilodwa aa . 18 Lamagundwane egolide njengokwenani lemizi yonke yamaFilisti yeziphathamandla ezinhlanu, kusukela emizini ebiyelweyo kuze kube semizaneni yemaphandleni ab kuze kube selitsheni elikhulu likaAbeli, lapho ababeka khona umtshokotsho we Nkosi, elisensimini kaJoshuwa umBeti-Shemeshi kuze kube lamuhla ac .