Vosloorus is a township situated in Boksburg just east of Katlehong on the east Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1963 when africans were removed from Stirtonville because it was considered by the apartheid government too close to a white town. Stirtonville, renamed Reiger Park, has since become home to Boksburg's coloured community. A local authority was established in 1983 when Vosloorus got full municipal status. During the 1980s it was the only local authority in the region in which elections were run by ethnic groups. There were no geographic wards but each ethnic group in the township elected a councillor. In South Africa, the term township applies to many types of urban areas, however, under Apartheid, the term township commonly came to mean a single-race residential development which confined non-whites (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in white-only communities. ... Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng, South Africa. ... Katlehong is a township located 35 Km east of Johannesburg and south of Germiston between two other townships of Thokoza and Vosloorus next to the N3 highway in the Ekhuruleni metropolitan of Gauteng Province of South Africa. ... The RAND Corporation is an American think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. ... Categories: South Africa stubs | Provinces of South Africa | Gauteng Province ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... See also: 1982 in South Africa, other events of 1983, 1984 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ...