Gugulethu

Province

Gugulethu (also: Guguletu ) is one of the southern suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa. During the period of apartheid in South Africa Gugulethu had been built as a Township with 15 kilometers to Cape Town. After the Group Areas Act of 1950, there was black South Africans not allowed to live in the cities.

Until the establishment of Gugulethu the twelve- kilometers southeast of Cape Town located Langa, was originally built for 850 people, Cape Town's only Township. Because of the oppressive overpopulation in Langa Cape Town in the 1950s and 60s, two further townships were built nearby, Nyanga and Gugulethu. Many black residents of Cape Town, in particular from the District Six were then evacuated by Gugulethu. In the 1980s, the establishment of Khayelitsha, the largest township followed today in Cape Town.

Most residents Gugulethus belong to the people of the Xhosa. The prevalent in Gugulethu language is isiXhosa therefore. The name comes from the language of the Xhosa Gugulethu and is a contraction of the words igugu lethu that mean so much as " our pride ". After the end of apartheid in 1994, thousands South Africans came from rural areas according to Gugulethu in order to find work in Cape Town can. The population grew rapidly to 98 468 inhabitants (as of 2011).

At the time of Apartheid street names were given in the townships newly founded, but numbers and shortcuts. That's the name the main street that runs through Gugulethu, NY1 ( Native Yards 1).

A landmark of Gugulethu Gugulethu Seven Memorial is at the intersection of NY1 and NY111. Seven blocks of granite stand here as a symbol for the seven young men who were shot at the height of the conflict over apartheid, by a special unit of the police at this point on the open road on March 3, 1986. The Memorial to the Gugulethu Seven was built in 2000.

Currently, many efforts are being made to improve the infrastructure Gugulethus to guarantee power and water supply and to promote tourism with accommodations. Even within Gugulethus to restaurants and meeting such Mzoli 's and Tiger's develop performance opportunities for musicians.