Cape Town Slums

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Cape town slums.

When cape town finally started implementing the group areas act it did so more severely than any other major city. 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. The slums of cape town. Dharavi in mumbai india.

Orangi town in karachi pakistan. 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. Khayelitsha s population according to the 2011 census is 99 percent black. Let s take a tour of the world s biggest slums.

Share on facebook tweet on twitter. Cape town initially opposed implementing the group areas act passed in 1950 and residential areas in the city remained unsegregated until the first group areas were declared in the city in 1957. 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. This made cape town one of the most populated cities in south africa and khayelitsha one of the most populated slums.

Part 1 december 23 2010 by stiv wilson. By 2030 it s estimated that it 1 in 4 people on the planet will live in a slum or other informal settlement. This is a list of slums in south africa grouped by nearby city. By the mid 1980s it had become one of the most segregated cities in south.

Joe slovo cape town wallacedene cape town. Khayelitsha in cape town south africa. Khayelitsha is home to around 2 4 million individuals. 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.

Cape town s exponential growth and increasing population has put a tremendous amount of pressure on the slum dwellers of cape town.