Cape Town Slums

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Cape town slums. This is my job. Cape town s exponential growth and increasing population has put a tremendous amount of pressure on the slum dwellers of cape town. Joe slovo cape town wallacedene cape town. This made cape town one of the most populated cities in south africa and khayelitsha one of the most populated slums.

The slums of cape town. By 2030 it s estimated that it 1 in 4 people on the planet will live in a slum or other informal settlement. Khayelitsha s population according to the 2011 census is 99 percent black. Dharavi in mumbai india.

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. Part 1 december 23 2010 by stiv wilson. 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. Share on facebook tweet on twitter. By the mid 1980s it had become one of the most segregated cities in south. 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. Khayelitsha in cape town south africa. When cape town finally started implementing the group areas act it did so more severely than any other major city.

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