On 28 April 2008, 31-year-old female soccer player Eudy Simelane was abducted, gang-raped and killed in KwaThema, her hometown near Johannesburg.
A black local authority with municipal status was established in 1984.
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In 1985 KwaThema experienced violent unrest and right-wing vigilante activity.
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It was established in 1951 when Africans were resettled from Payneville because it was considered by the apartheid government to be too close to a white town.
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