few hours to visit her brother, the TRA committee headed by Zukisani Sibunzi broke the lock on her door and put someone else in the home. For instance, in 1974, the construction of Mitchell’s Plain commenced and people who were forcibly removed from District Six were relocated to Mitchell’s Plain. is an industrial estate mainly occupied by the textile and clothing factories. In 1983 bloody violence broke out in Crossroads and growing tensions between the ‘comrades’ of the United Democratic Front and some residents led to the rise Beyond the Cyprus/Germany standoff, VIII. Labour conditions in the wine and fruit industry, V. Fair trade and the wine and fruit trade, West Coast National Park: Plants and Animals, XVIII. Cape Coloure For those of us who live in Cape Town, the townships of Khayelitsha, Gugs and Langa are places one seldom visits. gangsterism and drug abuse were rife. Between 6 000 and 7 000 people were forcibly moved from District Broad Estimates of Township Population Densities (People per km2). (For above see Wikipedia: Ndabeni). The anti-eviction campaign at Joe Slovo informal settlement at Langa 2007-9. is acknowledged that there is a gap between those who are allocated a free RDP house and those who can afford to buy on the open market. uncontrolled Kafir hordes’ and many whites demanded segregation. ‘The power of propaganda’, in Now that We Are Free: Coloured Communities in a Democratic South Africa, eds W James, D Caliguire & K Cullinan. In 1966 the government declared District Six in inner city Cape Town a ‘whites only’ area and despite tenacious resistance by 1982 more than 60,000 people had comments, which “could have the effect of inappropriately criminalising a whole organization and making its members vulnerable to threats of violence” (see here). They ideally wanted the Joe Slovo land to be redeveloped with Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses. Most of us give them a rather wide berth, if truth be told, their association with crime, gangsterism, poverty, Aids and anti-white sentiment enough to maintain the segregation of our past. During the first half of the twentieth century, a clear majority of the black population in major urban areas lived in hostels or servants’ accommodations provided by employers and were mostly single men. (labour recruitment) they first had to go to Langa to be dipped before they could mix with other people. A recent report on the website details ongoing No visitors or gatherings were allowed However, while she was away from her new home for a 3 Research was conducted during 2000 and 2001 and in 2004 in Cape Town. Als Coloureds (afrikaans: kleurlinge, in nachrangiger Verwendung bruinmense oder bruin Afrikaners[1]; deutsch auch Farbige oder Mischlinge) wird vor allem in Südafrika in geringerem Ausmaß auch in Namibia und Simbabwe eine Bevölkerungsgruppe von hochgradig diverser kultureller und ethnischer Zusammensetzung bezeichnet. Gov). In 2011 murders were (See Wikipedia: Some of the day to day development of the struggle is published on the, was intent on evicting residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement to distant Delft at Today it Amnesty international has expressed concern over “the apparent unwillingness of the relevant authorities in investigating these crimes” and official No visitors or gatherings were allowed and the actual service provider can shirk accountability' p.54. In appearance Bubonic plague had broken out which was soon blamed on ‘these problems in Langa: 'This is the story of Thandeka Ngcelwane who, last week, was allocated No.59, a government built shack in Langa Temporary Relocation Area. Cape Peninsula: Kommetjie, Hout Bay, Clifton, VIII. It was a Coloured rather than Black African township being comprised of ‘Hottentot, Malay and mixed races’. Early days: from wool to refrigeration, VII. it is like a concentration camp and facilities are poor, with four families to one toilet and tin walls that let in both heat and cold.’ (For quote see review of No Land!). The following week, new land occupations sprung up across the city, all in coloured townships: from Vrygrond and Parkwood in the southern part of Cape Town … Also in those days, government investments in infrastructure and services, mostly benefited the white elite ( McDonald, 2012 ). Development Programme. Copyright © 1994 - The Cape Flats consists of a vast number of townships where the majority of coloured and african people live. had mushroomed to 450,000. winter rains. They are generally bilingual, speaking Afrikaans and English, though some speak only one of these. No Vote! And residents in Delft and the N2 Gateway housing scheme illegally occupied new houses, were forcibly evicted and rather than being relocated to a notorious Mitchell’s Plain was designed as a Coloured Township for middle-income families but by the late 1980s much of it had been reduced to ghetto areas where There is a huge housing waiting list of 322 619 in Cape Town (see here for details and allocation procedure). No House! (£274/€348) a month, be married or live with a partner or be single and have dependent children and  have never owned a house or a property anywhere in South Africa. East of the northern and southern suburbs, among the industrial smokestacks and the windswept Cape Flats, reaching well beyond the airport, is Cape Town’s largest residential quarter, taking in the coloured districts, African townships and shantytown squatter camps. been relocated to the Cape Flats and Mitchell’s Plain and the district had been flattened by bulldozers (see. Authur's Pass: the pass, park and passing trains, IV. A stone throw away is Khayelitsha, an informal township where black people live in grim circumstances. informal settlement (estimated population 20,000)at Langa township resisted forceable relocation to Delft township 34km north east of Cape Town in 2007. In August 2009, new Minister for Human Settlements, Tokyo Sexwale, placed the eviction of residents on hold  and in September 2009, reports surfaced that the Development Programme.). 60-80% in the northern and scattered western parts of the township. house. The Cape Town High Court suspended the forced evictions for 9 weeks but upheld them all the same. be lacking if it were based solely on political or economic interests. Ashton(Montagu) Ashton(Robertson) Aurora. It was the area that most Black people were moved to after areas were declared 'White Only' . Over 5000 so-called 'bachelors' were forced to move into hostels, and thousands of gangsterism and drug abuse were rife. In 1956 it was enlarged to include the Nyanga Transit Camp and the settlement of Mau : Voices from Symphony Way records their struggles and eventual relocation to Blikkiesdorp. At the same time, the conditions in the Eastern Cape were Apparently, the Cape Town Medical Officer for Health declared that the living conditions of Africans were ‘very undesirable, both These townships were never an idyll of rural bliss or self-sufficiency. liberally by the police, according to reports. In appearance Sie to be dipped. been relocated to the Cape Flats and Mitchell’s Plain and the district had been flattened by bulldozers (see District Six government as influx controls were abolished. near to the international airport and next to the townships of Gugulethu and Crossroads. , Photius Coutsoukis and Information Technology Associates (All rights reserved). In 2001 it had a population of 58,452 of whom 99.54% were African and 50% of the housing units (13,734) were informal dwellings (, Khayelitsha density 7600/km2 (20000/sq mi). belongings removed – Thandeka had been illegally evicted from her home and, since her old shack in Joe Slovo was now demolished, she was left with nowhere else to go.'. Despite attempts close down Crossroads the government was forced to recognize it as an ‘emergency camp in 1978 and Coloured people who were the largest group of people affected by forced removals in Cape Town as a result of the Groups Areas Act were accommodated in these newly constructed townships. The largest number of babies born were in the City of Cape Town and stood at 66 367, followed by The Cape Winelands at 13 826. Pressures on Khayelitsha only grew after the 1994 election of an ANC It contains approximately 1,600 one room structures built of corrugated Cape Town Demographics. all black African men to carry passes was replaced in 1945 by the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act, in 1945, which imposed essentially the same conditions. The Natives (Abolition of Passes without permission from the superintendent, and the brewing of sorghum beer (utshwala) was prohibited' (see Capetown At). (For above see Wikipedia: What emerged at Langa ‘was a design allowing maximum visibility of residents by the authorities and hence their control. T liH STAK , JO 1EWS A COLOURED TOWNSHIP s it e w e s t o f o r l a n d o SUGGESTED To the Editor of The Star Sir,_ i read with ,nterest your ^ the Coloured township libraries on the Cape Flats during the 1980s. RDP houses have 36m/sq (joburg.org.za)(360 sq/ft) of floorspace or a room 20ft x 17ft (say a room and a half in a moderate semi-detached house in the UK). In 1923 the Native (Urban Areas) Act was passed restricting the entry of Africans into the city. The situation was aggravated by a widespread shortage of firewood, causing fuel collectors to cut the relatively few indigenous shrubs and trees that stabilised the sand. Places where many Cape Town citizens are forced to live, without occupation rights or security of tenure. This Cape Town could be concentrated and controlled, and permitted authorities to destroy illegal shacks. In the aftermath, houses of AbM supporters have been destroyed, 13 members imprisoned and death threats forced its leaders into hiding (see Mau. In a nutshell, and according to the Abahlali baseMjondolo website, the national Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was intent on evicting residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement to distant Delft at Source: all from individual Wikipedia pages but references don't work or don't tally. (See Wikipedia: Mitchell’s Plain  and Khayelitsha had a population of 406,000 in 2005, of whom 40% were under 19 years of age. In 1952 the government' imposed 'The Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act' which forced local authorities to set up emergency or Transit Camps where people winter rains. Nexus in Cape Town: War on Gangs, Counterinsurgency and Citizenship STEFFEN JENSEN* Research Center for Torture Victims, Copenhagen, Denmark In this article, I argue that the security and development nexus takes on specific forms depending on the context, and that in Cape Town’s coloured townships it is embodied in policies and practices around The ethnic and racial composition of Cape Town is: 42.4% "Coloured" 38.6% "Black African" 15.7% "White" 1.4% "Asian or Indian" 1.9% other; Apartheid in South Africa is still felt in Cape Town. 'The movement’s latest victory was announced in the hour of its greatest affliction. Close range rubber bullets and summary arrests were employed 'Sweet Salt': the Medieval Sugar Industry, Ploughing photos and memories of farming in Wales, South African Institute of Race A pared-down land: the Otago Peninsula, VII. Nyanga is one of the most dangerous townships in Cape Town. Agulhas. Cape Town is one of the most multicultural cities in the world and is a significant destination for expatriates and immigrants. Crossroads by the witdoeke violence. Neither employers nor the government built new accommodation or homes for the influx of new residents. At). article ‘The attacks on Kennedy Road’). In general, though, the policy imperative Temporary Relocation Areas known as Blikkiesdorp (a ‘blikkie’ is a tin shack) occupied pavements for a year and half on Symphony Way (of all places). In the late 1950s the destruction of shack settlements increased in areas like Hout Bay and Elsies River. Legend has it that Coetzee got his nickname, “Manenberg“, because of … In 2001 it had a population of 58,452 of whom 99.54% were African and 50% of the housing units (13,734) were informal dwellings ( Capetown.gov ). A book No Land! Site West Of Orlando Suggested. Sie ist insbesondere auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen Kapkolonie, d. h. im Süden und Westen Sü… Cape coloured children in Bonteheuwel township (Cape Town, South Africa) Many Coloureds are bilingual as they can speak English and Afrikaans and sometimes Kaap. Cape Town during the week-end, and to-day got into touch with Ministers and Members of Parliament. RDP houses are allocated through a waiting list and are free. Uitvlugt (later known as Ndabeni) was established on the Cape Flats, next to a sewerage plant. (in Corruption in Infrastructure Delivery: South Africa G. Hollands DfiD 2007. iron. For example, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission transcripts record vigilante violence in collusion with the police during township uprisings in Zolani in 1986. Coloured townships are often associated with gangsterism and drugs, and this connotation left me ashamed. here). At). The problems of poor construction, project disruption (community conflict, theft and vandalism) are common to both conventional and PHP approaches. install rudimentary water supplies and refuse collection. of the police-backed and armed ‘witdoeke’ (who wore white armbands) who set fire to all the Crossroads settlements and left 60,000 people homeless (see Cape Town Cape Peninsula: Muizenberg to Simon's Town, V. Cape Peninsula: Scarborough and Benguela Current, VI. When she returned she found a lady in her home and her The weekly rent for a house was 7s 6d compared to that for a shack of 6d and many people remained in shanty towns. The residents took the case to the Constitutional Court in Pretoria which ruled in 2009 And it did rain: Arthur's Pass to Dunedin, The Otago Peninsula and Dunedin (7 pages), II. Of these births, 50 756 were male and 49 209 were female. See also M. Rubin 2011 and this BBC report from 2008 and this South Africa.Info report). Residents feared that they would be dumped in Delft without proper housing, ending up in Transit Camps like Blikkiesdorp or "Tsunami" and unable to access central Cape Town and the work being faced. It is also the area in which most of Migrant labour was housed. It is described by the pavement dwellers as `for pigs', a place where rapists live around the corner and drug dealing is rife. Amid Apartheid (1948–1994) Cape Town became an explicitly race-based segregated city: with black and coloured people isolated in townships, and white elite controlling the central areas. Into the future: opportunities and threats, The Western Cape: Slaughter, Slavery and Segregation, The Eastern Cape and the defeat of the xhosa, Socio-Economic Conditions in South Africa 2010, III. Such an environment proves to be corruption-friendly since cost cutting, project failure and beneficiary discontent can be blamed on a wider set of factors It is named after the coloured township of the Western Cape, Manenberg. The township comprised 5 large dormitories each housing 500 men, and 615 lean-to huts made of corrugated iron, without floors, which often flooded in the The noted English naturalist, William John Burchell, remarked in 1811 that the deep sand of the Flats made travel by cart or wagon extremely difficult. Unemployment was 80% and 86% of the population lived in serviced or unserviced informal dwellings. must enter into consultation with residents, and that temporary relocation areas where residents were to be moved be of higher quality.'. They were dipped like cattle (see. Yet a visit through the townships of Langa, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Cross Roads, Mitchell’s Plain and Manenberg is one of the most revealing and enriching things you can do whilst in Cape Town – for better or worse this area is considered the birthplace of Cape Town’s soul and art, crafts, music and entrepreneurship abound in a collective show of making the best of a bad situation. down from previous year’s 217 to 198. Mitchell’s Plain was designed as a Coloured Township for middle-income families but by the late 1980s much of it had been reduced to ghetto areas where This is all part of a more general malise recognised by the ANC at its five-yearly policy review in 2012. The Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme is Blikkiesdorp was built by the City of Cape Town in 2007 by then Mayor Helen Zille. (Xhosa ‘moon’) is one of the oldest black townships in Cape Town. pace and depth of transformation” (see FT 21/6/2012. When someone came from the Eastern Cape they couldn’t stay here [Nyanga] before they had gone to Langa - Please bookmark this page (add it to your favorites). There was unemployment of 30% in 2001 which rates of between construction and community conflict. Image: Flickr/Aaron Brown 45% der Bevölkerung „farbig“. The local government continued to clear squatter camps through the sixties and seventies. When they came through the join? It is one of South Africa's largest townships. Six, by the city’s docks, to Ndabeni. To Authur's Pass: Coal, timber, trails and tragedy, III. These informal settlements mostly have a high density of occupation and very poor sanitation. ... A COLOURED TOWNSHIP. Nyanga is one of the most dangerous townships in Cape Town.According to data collected by the South African Institute of Race Abbotsdale. Cape Coloureds in the media Cape Coloured school children in Mitchell's Plain Cape Coloured children in Bonteheuwel township (Cape Town, South Africa) The Christmas Bands are a popular Cape Coloured cultural tradition in Cape Town. I lived in Bonteheuwel, a former coloured township and dumping ground for forced removees. 'The [...] examples illustrate the typical problems and successes that emerge from housing provision in terms of the People's Housing Project model and more conventional housing approaches. To extend or One research investigation in 2000 found that only 30% of new houses complied with building regulations. Nyanga is made up by eleven townships (Lusaka, KTC, Old Location, Maumau, Zwelitsha, Maholweni"Hostels", Black City, White City, Barcelona, Kanana & Europe. Arniston. Cape Town: IDASA, 22. squatters moved to Crossroads and by 1977 there were 18,000 living there. - If you wish to link to this page, you can do so by referring to the URL address below this line. The Early Settlement of the Otago Peninsula: the first European wave and Ngai Tahu resistance, Golden Bay IV: Mangakarau Bush Industries, Golden Bay VI: The Karst Country of the Cowin Road, Golden Bay IX: Taupo Point and Abel Tasman. renovate an RDP house before eight years of ownership residents must get permission to do so from their local municipality (see Property24). and layout -- to the extent that they often strongly resemble the en masse bleak building programmes of the Apartheid government during the 1950s and 60s' (see Wikipedia: Reconstruction and ... racially homogeneous townships on the Cape Flats.