The community of Kwa - Thema in the East of Johannesburg, Springs, was formed in 1951 as a result of the apartheid government forcibly moving black South Africans who lived in Payneville to Kwa-Thema, as they were considered too close to the Johannesburg CBD as delineated by the 1950 Group Areas Act. loadshedding but our mountains and valleys are still on. The fynbos still rustles in the wind and the butterflies and bees still visit their flowers.