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Khayelitsha has a very young population, with fewer than 7% of its residents being over 50 years old and over 40% of its residents being under 19. In 2011, around 62% of residents in Khayelitsha were rural to urban migrants, [16]: 6 most coming from the Eastern Cape. In the communities of Enkanini and Endlovini, over 85% of the residents were ...
The settlement is well known as one of the most under-served and neglected communities in Cape Town. It has no services except for eight water taps. The city has refused to build toilets in the settlement and residents have to either pay homeowners in Q Section to use their facilities or cross the N2 freeway and use an open field.
Khayelitsha, Township along N2 road near Cape Town (2015) The sewer systems within townships are poorly planned and constructed. [citation needed] The population of townships typically grows faster than what the infrastructure was planned for, causing overloads that result in blockages, surges, and overflows. There often are only a limited ...
School children at Mitchells Plain school. They draw learners from Khayelitsha and Philippi as well. Taxis from Cape Town station to Mitchells Plain. Mitchells Plain is a large census designated sub-place [2] located within the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and situated about 28 km (17 mi) from the Cape Town city centre.
Large scale rural-urban migration has rapidly increased the population, putting strain on housing with major increases in informal shack settlement, including in areas that were originally created on a planned basis, for example, Khayelitsha. One of the major priorities of the RDP (Reconstruction & Development Programme) is to build houses. [7]
Settlement name changes especially targeted places of Afrikaans origin, such as Pietersburg (Polokwane), Nylstroom (Modimolle) and Ellisras (Lephalale), while avoiding places with Bantu or English names such as Northam, Alldays, Tzaneen and Thabazimbi. The Limpopo is the most ethnically black province in South Africa (96.7% as of 2011) and is ...
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The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride/ our hope.Gugulethu, along with Nyanga, was established in the 1960s due to the overcrowding of Langa, which was the only black residential area for Cape Town at the time.