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A Documentary Narrative of the ‘Indian and Native Cantonment’ at the Point, 1873 to 1903

Bamboo Square at the Point, Durban was one nineteenth century settlement of marginalised people whose persistent attempts to establish themselves near places of wage employment sheds some light on life at the 
urban edge. Drawing from numerous documents both official and commercial, the saga of Bamboo Square is presented here as a descriptive narrative. The records of the settlement also include other issues, such as: 
early Natal approaches to racial segregation; problems of slums, sanitation and planning; self-help housing using a variety of resources both natural and industrial; the persistent efforts of local apostles of sanitation to improve the 
environmental health of Durban; and the seeds of municipal and government controls, policies and administrative techniques, which were to become 
powerful instruments at a future time.