Forest Town, Gauteng

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Forest Town, as the name implies, is a leafy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies between the busy thoroughfares of Jan Smuts Avenue and Oxford Road, and is bordered to one side by the Johannesburg Zoo.

Forest Town is most well known as the scene of a high profile police raid on a gay party in 1966, which triggered a moral panic and led to the Apartheid government passing the Immorality Amendment Bill of 1967. The Bill criminalised all sexual activity between men, as well as extending the legislation to include lesbians as well. Following South Africa's first multiracial elections in 1994, all discriminatory legislation was repealed.

In 2005, the Forest Town home of Jacob Zuma, the ex Deputy President of South Africa, was raided by the Scorpions in order to obtain documents for his corruption trial which began in March 2006.

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