Marabastad (also called Asiatic Bazaar or Location) is a business area to the west of the city centre of Pretoria, South Africa.

Like the residents of other racially diverse areas in South Africa, such as District Six, "Fietas" and Sophiatown, the inhabitants of Marabastad were relocated to single-race townships further away from the city centre.

Africans who streamed to Pretoria during the war were living in squatter camps near the artillery barracks, the brickworks and the railway stations at Prinshof.

Although New Marabastad was intended as a temporary settlement the military authorities granted permission for in their employ to erect brick houses.

Along with the Cape Location, which was situated in the southern part of the Asiatic Bazaar, it fell under the jurisdiction of the City Council of that year.

Due to the fear of epidemic all wells in the area had been filled during the war, and a single public tap had replaced the entire system.

These regulations didn't achieve their objections as a result of municipal maladministration and the fact that Africans could not own land and afford well-built permanent houses.

The Native Affairs Department accused the Pretoria Town Council of inefficient administration, which had led directly to this situation.

By 1923 the last houses of the second municipal project was completed in New Location and Marabastad residents who had been exposed to the worst conditions were allowed to move in first.

The Marabastad community would be moved here and compensation was offered to previous owners of property in the form of new houses they could rent, but not own.

The war slowed the process considerably, but 1949 had moved three quarters of the population of Marabastad to Atteridgeville, and by 1950 the transition was complete.