Drive around Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's biggest and fastest-growing townships, and football is impossible to ignore. There are hundreds of teams, thousands of players and five dedicated local ...

With the festive season around the corner, the City of Cape Town is shining the spotlight on township tourism and the economy. On Monday morning 28 November, the City launched the Khayelitsha Tourism ...

Khayelitsha -- which means "new home" in Xhosa (one of South Africa's 11 official languages) -- is the largest township in Cape Town. In South Africa, townships are the often underdeveloped, racially ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. A mother and father stand in the doorway of their Khayelitsha ...

A plan to build the first private hospital in Khayelitsha faces a setback and possible disruption after clashes over the proposed relocation of informal settlement residents. Families that live in two ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had one goal: to get more of them into cycling. Known as ...

KHAYELITSHA TOWNSHIP, South Africa (AlertNet) - Five years ago, Nozipho Nodliwa's shack in this sprawling township on the outskirts of Cape Town caught fire and was destroyed. She and 500 others, ...

From the township streets of Khayelitsha to the summits of some of the world’s highest mountains, Monde Steven Sitole, 35, has spent his life defying the odds and he’s not done yet. The Nyanga-born ...

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, a dog is held in a cage while awaiting surgery at the Mdzananda clinic, in the Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa. The Mdzananda animal ...

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