Mint Road in Fordsburg is a secondary, or auxiliary site. To the project and may be seen key to understanding how home can be a political space of action through the four domestic labours.

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Fordsburg has been associated with the Indian community and more recently a new immigrant population from the Indian subcontinent. Indian labourers arrived in the British colony of the Natal in 1860 as indentured labourers. They were followed by ‘Passenger Indians’, Gujerati traders and hawkers from western India who emigrated on their own expense. (Mayat. 2013)

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More recently it has attracted immigrants from North Africa as well as the middle east. Yasmin Mayat's (2013) thesis: "Fordsburg's Urban Memory - Cultural Significance and its Embodiment in the Ordinary Landscape" - defines Fordsburg as an ethnic enclave where new immigrants settle in an environment that has a sense of familiarity, a sense of home. Mayat (2013) references Homi Bhabha's definition of "hybridity" and the creation of a "third" or "in-between space", where elements encounter and transform each other.

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This is relevant in the environment of Fordsburg where the colonial subject essentially hybridises in these sites of colonisers. "Urban hybridity" constructs a new home in new territory for immigrants. This new meaning of home is seen as “that place which enables and promotes varied and ever-changing perspectives, a place where one discovers new ways of seeing reality, frontiers of difference.” (hooks 1990)