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Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements. [1] The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.
A program to deliver 30,000 homes, part of a wider slum clearance plan got underway in 1957. [8] By the early 1970s, South Africa was well advanced into various major clearance projects. In Umlazi, just south of Durban, 20,000 new bungalows were laid out in a style reminiscent of California. The new properties were available for $10 monthly ...
Pictures and videos have circulated taking account of the violence including the shooting of a three-year-old child who was shot three times. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In February 2008, residents set up an informal settlement on Symphony Way despite efforts by the City of Cape Town to evict them and move them into a nearby Temporary Relocation Area ...
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The Slums Act was a highly controversial Act supported by the Provincial Government of KwaZulu-Natal as a response to housing conditions. Its stated purpose was to eliminate substandard housing conditions by giving the provincial Housing MEC authority to prescribe a time in which it would be compulsory for municipalities to evict unlawful occupiers of slums when landowners failed to do so.
This is a category for listing suburbs in South Africa. (It should be noted that in South Africa the term "suburb" refers generally to a small region of a city, not necessarily to an area on the outskirts of the city.) See also the following categories: Cities in South Africa; Townships in South Africa; Municipalities of South Africa
Ahead of the 2010 World Cup the British anti-poverty charity War on Want created a virtual model of Blikkiesdorp featuring videos of residents talking about conditions in the settlement. [ 21 ] Blikkiesdorp has also been compared with the alien camp called District 9 from the international hit movie on numerous occasions.
Pages in category "Slums in South Africa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Blikkiesdorp; E.