"township"

means a group of erven or lots, with or without public open spaces, excluding commonage land and land which consists of any other open space which has not been developed or reserved for public purposes, which has been established or recognized under any law as a township or village, if those erven or lots are used or are intended to be used mainly for purposes other than farming, horticulture or the keeping of animals, or any village not established or recognized under any law as a township, which has been recognized by the controlling authority concerned, for the purposes of this Act, as a township;

[Definition substituted by section 1(a) of Act No. 43 of 1985]