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Place in Western Cape, South Africa Khayelitsha Khayelitsha looking east, from Lookout Hill over Ilitha Park Khayelitsha Show map of Western Cape Khayelitsha Show map of South Africa Khayelitsha Show map of Africa Coordinates: 34°02′25″S 18°40′40″E / 34.04028°S 18.67778°E / -34.04028; 18.67778 Country South Africa Province Western Cape Municipality City of Cape Town ...
Judge O'Regan, Adv. Pikoli (centre table); Dan Plato and Helen Zille (left table), at the Khayelitsha Commission handover ceremony. The Khayelitsha Commission, also known as the O'Regan/Pikoli Commission, was a commission of inquiry appointed in 2012 by Premier of the Western Cape Helen Zille to investigate allegations of police inefficiency in Khayelitsha and the breakdown in relations ...
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.
The theme of the 2010 lecture series was "Masithete" (Xhosa for "lets talk)," in part a response to the poor sanitation conditions in a section of Khayelitsha known as Makhaza where miscommunication between community members and government officials resulted in certain residents having to use toilets without walls or roofs.
The TAC distributes over 500,000 condoms in Khayelitsha every month, which helped reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in the township by 50% between 2004 and 2007. [24] Mortality statistics in Khayelitsha have also improved in recent years, which may be partially due to the TAC's outreach efforts. [25]
There are about 650 families living in QQ Section, which is occupied mostly by migrants from the Eastern Cape and backyard-dwellers from the old overcrowded sections of Khayelitsha. [ 1 ] QQ section is located on Eskom-owned land beneath power lines [ 1 ] and next to the formal settlements of Q Section and the informal settlements of BM Section ...
The Mandela Park Backyarders or just Backyarders is an unfunded Khayelitsha-based South African social movement made up of poor and marginalised residents of Mandela Park that is working for housing rights and against evictions.
Bhe and Others v Magistrate, Khayelitsha and Others; Shibi v Sithole and Others; SA Human Rights Commission and Another v President of the RSA and Another [1] was an important case in South African customary law. The case was heard in the Constitutional Court on 2 and 3 March 2004, with judgment handed down on 15 October. Chaskalson CJ, Langa ...