![]() ![]() Local residents refer to their township as KwaLanga, which will be the name used in this report. The name literally means “sun”, but it is derived from the name of Langalibalele, a Hlubi rebel imprisoned in Cape Town after rebelling against the Natal government. Ndabeni was overcrowded and the white middle-class residents of nearby Pinelands were keen that it be removed, so a new location named Langa was opened. In 1923 the Urban Areas Act was passed, forcing Africans to live in locations. Langa is a population that was driven away from an area called Ndabeni. Black neighbourhoods, most located far from the city centre, include Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu, along with Khayelitsha, a township in which the housed population is now greatly exceeded by the informal settlement. Although those laws are no longer in effect, many of Cape Town’s neighbourhoods remain largely segregated by race. Under apartheid, the system of racial segregation that was in effect in South Africa from as early as the 1930s to the early 1990s, people were classified as white, black, coloured or Asian and forced to live in separate residential areas. – The Nelson Mandela Foundation held another event in the series of community conversations in KwaLanga on July 24, 2008 Community conversation series stops in KwaLanga
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