The Township was completed and officially opened in 1927. The former structures were shabby, with unpaved roads and no electricity supply. Although the name Langa means Sun, the name is actually derived from the name of the Xhosa chief Langalibalele, who was imprisoned on Robben Island in 1873 for rebelling against the Natal government. Following the removal of Black people from Ndabeni location, near Maitland, in the late 1920s, the authorities established Langa location outside Cape Town. In 1923 the Urban Areas Act was passed to enforce the compulsory residence of Africans in locations. In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more formal structure for African Urban administration.
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