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Introduction to townships

Apartheid-era 'Homelands Policy' allocated areas according to ethnicity. This has left its mark on the ethnic distribution of Cape Town to this day, and townships are there in all their squalor for ev

Simple pleasures

Published: 31/01/2011 by Carrie Hampton in Townships

Simple pleasures

With few material possessions, most township children manage to convert rubbish into toys and seem to derive great pleasure from doing so. Witness a child taking delight in rolling an old tyre along t

Spirit of Ubuntu

Published: 31/01/2011 by Carrie Hampton in Townships

Spirit of Ubuntu

The Ubuntu of township culture dictates that the community is placed above the needs of the individual (Umuntu). Prepare to re-evaluate your perspective on life and do as some of the locals do, with

Township Tours

Published: 31/01/2011 by Carrie Hampton in Townships

Township Tours

While in the Kayelitsha-Gugulethu region, make the township-based Sivuyile Tourism Centre, (next to Sivuyile College), your starting point - tel: 021 637 8449. Or board the red double-decker bus for

Lively Township Streets

Township streets are hectic with speeding mini-bus taxis dodging carts pulled by patient donkeys. Spaza shops sell anything from groceries to gearboxes and traders peddle hubcaps and skin creams, pota

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