KwaThema is a township south-west of Springs in the district of Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa.

It was established in 1951 when Africans were forcibly removed from Payneville because it was considered by the apartheid government to be too close to a white town.

The typical South African township house, the 51/9, was one of the plans developed for KwaThema.

KwaThema is a multi-racial township where most of South Africa's eleven official languages are spoken but the predominant ones are Sotho and Zulu.

KwaThema was named after Selope Thema who was a South African political activist and leader.