Cape Town Townships — Langa, Khayelitsha & the Living Culture of the Cape Flats
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Cape Town Townships — Langa, Khayelitsha & the Living Culture of the Cape Flats

Cape Town's townships (the residential areas on the Cape Flats, established under apartheid to house the Black and Coloured populations forcibly removed from the city and its suburbs — the largest concentration of urban poverty in South Africa outside Johannesburg): Langa (the oldest township in Cape Town, established 1927, now a centre of Xhosa cultural life in Cape Town), Khayelitsha (the largest township in the Cape, established 1983 during apartheid, now home to approximately 1.2 million people), and Gugulethu (established 1958) are the principal destinations for township tourism, which has become one of the most significant cultural tourism sectors in Cape Town since the end of apartheid.

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