Fifty wattle and daub huts, 17 foot in diameter with 6-foot walls, thatched roofs and two glazed windows, were subsequently erected by the council.
[2] The first residents of Ginsberg were drawn from a predominantly rural background, and were attracted to King William's Town by the prospect of finding work and accommodation.
[1] During the 1970s, Ginsberg was a hive of political activity as its most famous son Steve Biko and Black Consciousness Movement members lived in the area.
Biko had returned to the township after being banned from leaving the King William's Town magisterial district by the apartheid government in 1973.
[4] Unemployment, poverty and alcoholism are rife in the township, which has been plagued by service delivery protests in recent years.