A nice word for shantytown. The postcard says that these have "sprung up around South African cities since the ending of apartheid." These don't look much different than a lot of the townships or "locations" that we drove by that are outside of every single town and city that predate the ending of apartheid.
According to people we spoke with, the populations of the townships, both black and colored, around Cape Town far outnumber the non-township population. And there is no knowing how many people really live in the locations, especially since the ending of apartheid there are many immigrants from other parts of Africa, such as the war torn Congo areas and Nigeria who have come to South Africa looking for work.
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