Pimville, now part of Soweto, began in the early 1900s as Klipspruit Location – Johannesburg’s first municipal Black township, created after the bubonic plague to push African residents out of the city centre and later renamed in 1934. Used as a relocation zone for people cleared from inner-city “slums”, it was planned as a temporary, tightly controlled rental camp but became a permanent, overcrowded suburb shaped by pass laws, housing shortages and municipal neglect. Today Pimville sits in Johannesburg’s south-west, bordered by Klipspruit and Orlando and linked to the CBD by major roads, its streets a mix of old four-roomed council houses, RDP developments and pockets of informal settlement. It remains densely populated, majority Black and relatively young, with many residents relying on commuting, informal work and small businesses amid persistent unemployment and housing finance gaps. Politically and culturally, however, Pimville is no longer just a “native location” on the edge of the city but an integral part of Soweto’s heritage corridor around Kliptown and Walter Sisulu Square, where ongoing struggles over land, services and development sit alongside strong civic life, churches, schools, and township entrepreneurship.