[2]: 199  The Urban Resettlement Board was created and the forced removals began on 10 February 1955 and would continue until the mid-sixties when most of the new township had been completed.

[2]: 199  Early residents were separated into new zones of the township based on their ethnic background and identifiable by the street names.

[2]: 199 The Johannesburg City Council, at the time controlled by the United Party, did not participate in the forced removals but did provide extra land in Diepkloof when space ran out in Meadowlands when black people from the suburbs of Martindale and Newclare needed areas to settle.

[3]: xi  The Johannesburg City Council did not control the area as it did with Soweto, but would be made to cover the cost of the relocations.

[3]: 32  By 1968, the Natives Resettlement Board had relocated 22,500 black families and 6,500 single persons in both Meadowlands and Diepkloof and would administer both areas as they had not yet been allocated to any white municipality.