South African cities present some peculiarities due to the early implementation of racial segregation and its systematization under the apartheid regime. Such ideologies have given birth to a specific spatial form, that is the township. This paper wants to show how Black people have assumed this space and transformed it into place, through political subversion of its very layout as well as social practices. Thus, the township has become something of an urban model even in the post-apartheid era...L'espace des villes sud-africaines est marqué très tôt par les principes d'une ségrégation imposée par la loi, en particulier en ce qui concerne les Africains. Cette ségrégation sera systématisée après 1948 par la politique d'apartheid. Ces idéolog...