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Khayelitsha Township

Cape Town Central, South Africa
3.0 of 5 stars 9 Reviews
Type: Neighbourhoods
Activities: Group tours/walking tour
Most recent review
- 15 Mar 2012
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Cape Town Central, South Africa
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31 reviews 31 reviews
17 helpful votes 17 helpful votes
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 15 March 2012

Some small compact houses for the underpriveleged but not somewhere I would go due to crime levels in this age of recession

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Cape Town Central, South Africa
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42 reviews 42 reviews
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 13 March 2012

Make sure you have a guide and then you can see the extent of what needs to be solved as well as what has been achieved since 1994

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Cape Town Central, South Africa
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44 reviews 44 reviews
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 8 March 2012

which travellers seldom see. ONLY go there with a respectable tour guide. Even then, only in the day time. Not considered safe!

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Cape Town
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17 reviews 17 reviews
6 helpful votes 6 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 7 February 2012

To understand the fabric of Cape Town and South African society, it is worth taking a township tour or even staying at one of the many township B&B's in Khayalitsha. The only site offering township accommodation was www.mycapetownstay.com if there are others out there let me know

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Cape Town
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6 reviews 6 reviews
3 helpful votes 3 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 February 2012

The word Township must go ! It was a term brought in by the Apartheid government when black folk were moved from one place to another or a residential place for blacks was created to supply workers for a node of business & industry. Tours through Uthando to the various activities under the aegis of a local of the suburb... More

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Stellenbosch
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33 reviews 33 reviews
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 16 January 2012

The same kind of offering as every other township, and the 'smileys' are creepy.

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Cape Town Central, South Africa
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50 reviews 50 reviews
12 helpful votes 12 helpful votes
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 29 December 2011

Surely given the wealth of this country, and the excesses enjoyed by the political elite ruling this country, shanty towns should be a thing of the past... shame on you Mr. Zuma and co

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Scotland
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48 reviews 48 reviews
21 helpful votes 21 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 8 October 2008
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Visited this township recently on a Sunday. A shanty town and worse conditions that Langa which I also visited. Water and electricity are installed but toilet facilities are extremely basic - in what we would almost call a portacabin but without locks, loos etc. We visited a shabeen and tasted the beer made from sorghum - fermented and ready for... More

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Montreal, Canada
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2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 February 2011
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