Into the Townships

We started Saturday off by visiting District 6. From there our tour moved toward the townships outside of Cape Town. We began in Langa (stopping by a community center and a few homes), then drove on to Kayelitsha and Mitchell's Plain. We grabbed a speedy lunch before heading back to Cape Town to tour the Slave Lodge with Ms. Lucy Campbell. We spent the evening ringing in Hazar's birthday,

Vernon shows us District 6, an area that used to be a vibrant community and home to thousands of people. Vernon's family was forcibly removed from District 6 and relocated in a township outside of the city. The area has not been redeveloped.

Guga S'thebe is a community center in Langa were children and young adults learn to be artists and musicians.

A government housing project in Langa,

Above is a local resident showing us around a typical home in Langa. Below is one bedroom in that four bedroom home. Thirty people live in this house, 3 families in that one bedroom.

Informal housing.

The Slave Lodge where imported slave laborers were once held now sits in the middle of down town Cape Town.

Lucy Campbell tells us the history of slave labor in South Africa. She also offered insight into the kind of physical and psychological battles that non-whites face today as a result of institutionalized segregation and slave labor.

Looking nice...and giant.