Cape Town Slums

Let s take a tour of the world s biggest slums.

Cape town slums.

Khayelitsha s population according to the 2011 census is 99 percent black. 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. 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. Orangi town in karachi pakistan.

By 2030 it s estimated that it 1 in 4 people on the planet will live in a slum or other informal settlement. Kibera in nairobi kenya. 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. I travel the world looking at garbage.

Khayelitsha in cape town south africa. This is a list of slums in south africa grouped by nearby city. Dharavi in mumbai india. This is my job.

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. The slums of cape town. Part 1 december 23 2010 by stiv wilson. 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.

Khayelitsha is home to around 2 4 million individuals. 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 made cape town one of the most populated cities in south africa and khayelitsha one of the most populated slums. By the mid 1980s it had become one of the most segregated cities in south.

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