Cape Town Slums

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Cape town slums. The slums of cape town. Khayelitsha s population according to the 2011 census is 99 percent black. By 2030 it s estimated that it 1 in 4 people on the planet will live in a slum or other informal settlement. Her brutal death sparked a renewed campaign by residents led by the sjc to highlight the link lack of sanitation poor policing and crime in cape town s slums.

In cape town the shanty towns of khayelitsha stretch for miles a grim brown sea of ramshackle wood and iron shacks that confront visitors arriving at the airport but are out of view of the city s glass towers or the leafy suburbs on nearby hills. This is a list of slums in south africa grouped by nearby city. Orangi town in karachi pakistan. Joe slovo cape town wallacedene cape town.

Khayelitsha is home to around 2 4 million individuals. Part 1 december 23 2010 by stiv wilson. In cape town the slums of flamingo crescent and santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is being hailed as an example of how residents can. Let s take a tour of the world s biggest slums.

Finally davis asserts in the book the planet of slums that without access to schools children become ideal recruits for street gangs and paramilitaries escalating the urban crime rate and further diminishing. Khayelitsha in cape town south africa. Cape town s exponential growth and increasing population has put a tremendous amount of pressure on the slum dwellers of cape town. Dharavi in mumbai india.

When cape town finally started implementing the group areas act it did so more severely than any other major city. Kibera in nairobi kenya. Share on facebook tweet on twitter. By the mid 1980s it had become one of the most segregated cities in south.

Though khayelitsha was originally an apartheid dumping ground as part of the group areas act it is now one of the largest and fastest growing slums in south africa.