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	The history of Khayelitsha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The new township was called Khayelitsha which means 'New home'.
		This fighting caused people to move to Khayelitsha, saying they are forced to move to Khayelitsha because of the violence and moving to Khayelitsha was not their intention It was exactly what the government wanted them to do.
		In 1990 the population of Khayelitsha was estimated at 450,000 and unemployed at 80 per cent.
	library.advanced.org /28028/History.html (233 words)

	Turtle Essays, Khayelitsha
		Khayelitsha from the air appears to be well laid out with roads and formal housing that is being built with government subsidies.
		Khayelitsha is developing a lookout area on a hill near its Mitchells Plain entrance which will become a permanent attraction.
		Tour companies trading in Khayelitsha have developed links with the the locals and will take tourists to areas where it is safe for visitors to go.
	www.turtlesa.com /ezine131.html (592 words)

	Address at the Opening of the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court
		Khayelitsha, like many similar townships in our country, was designed according to the disastrous policies of the past, which saw such human settlements as cheap labour reservoirs.
		The people of Khayelitsha, together with many of us throughout the country, fought the struggle for liberation to give ourselves the possibility to face, in a concerted, integrated and comprehensive way, the challenges we inherited from the apartheid past.
		All of us in Khayelitsha and other places should be inspired by a development such as this one and I have no doubt that this will strengthen confidence in the administration of Justice.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/mbeki/2003/tm0417.html (1171 words)

	health.iafrica.com \| health features Sanitation: Khayelitsha's biggest problem
		In Khayelitsha, diarrhoea and gastro-enteritis have overtaken HIV/Aids as the biggest killer of children under five years with the deaths doubling over the last four years.
		Khayelitsha is widely acknowledged as an area of multiple problems.
		Under the KTT umbrella, a programme that included the regular deworming of children was launched together with the development of teaching materials for school, an attempt to improve the water and sanitation infrastructure in the schools and the inclusion of health and hygiene in the school curriculum.
	health.iafrica.com /features/971681.htm (1183 words)

	come2capetown.com; information on Cape Town & South Africa ::development::
		Khayelitsha is South Africa’s fastest growing township, and is one of Cape Town’s leading tourist destinations.
		The area that comprises Khayelitsha is mostly flat surrounded by a few sand dunes due to it’s proximity to the sea.
		A common belief exists amongst the residents that Khayelitsha was designed in such a way by Apartheid planners to easily be able to quell political unrest in the township.
	www.come2capetown.com /development/townships/Khayelitsha.asp (619 words)

	Khayelitsha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khayelitsha (IPA: [ˌkaɪ.əˈlit̚.ʃə]) is a township - also known as an 'informal settlement' - in South Africa, on the outskirts of Cape Town in the Cape Flats.
		The ethnic makeup of Khayelitsha is approximately 90% Black African and 10% Coloured, with Xhosa the predominant language of the residents.
		Khayelitsha CHC (Community Health Centre) is the principal clinic, and is the only 24 hour trauma and emergency unit in the township.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khayelitsha (464 words)

	Khayelitsha, Cape Town
		Khayelitsha has become one of Cape Town's biggest tourist attractions, with tourists wanting to see for themselves the immense povery which the people of Khayelitsha live under, the shebeens and community spirit.
		Khayelitsha is today (2006) the third largest township in South Africa, after Soweto and Sharpeville, both near Johannesburg.
		This fighting caused people to move to Khayelitsha, saying they are forced to move to Khayelitsha because of the violence and moving to Khayelitsha was not their intention.
	www.capetown.dj /Regions/CapeFlats/Khayelitsha/Khayelitsha.html (218 words)

	Creating a Sustainable Business among South Africa's Poor 'One Bite at a Time' - Knowledge@Wharton
		Two years ago, Polak founded The Khayelitsha Cookie Co., which now employs 11 women from the sprawling shantytown to bake high-end cookies and brownies that are distributed to top hotels, restaurants and coffeehouses throughout South Africa.
		"Khayelitsha is not known as a hub for economic activity.
		Khayelitsha Cookies was founded in a community center with two ovens in 2004.
	knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu /article.cfm?articleid=1520 (1895 words)

	Concern as MSF starts handover of HIV/AIDS treatment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		KHAYELITSHA, 24 Jan 2006 (PLUSNEWS) - After five years of groundbreaking work in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, medical humanitarian agency Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) are preparing to pull out of their most successful South African programme.
		Nurse Mpumie Mantananga is responsible for managing Khayelitsha's Ubuntu clinic in the heart of the township.
		Khayelitsha is MSF's first HIV/AIDS treatment programme to be handed over to the authorities and the end result has implications for thousands receiving care elsewhere on the continent.
	www.irinnews.org /pnprint.asp?ReportID=5631 (1100 words)

	P.O.V. - State of Denial . "The AIDS Rebel" \| PBS
		Khayelitsha is a sprawling, ramshackle township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa.
		Although Khayelitsha resembles a squatter's retreat, it was in fact designed by the apartheid government.
		Khayelitsha has long had one of the highest tuberculosis rates in the world, and in recent years it has been decimated by AIDS.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/stateofdenial/special_rebel.html (2413 words)

	Nomvuyo's Tours - Khayelitsha Township Information
		This was the first illegal settlement and during the 1970's and early 1980's, the government attempted to demolish the shacks and destroy the residents property, but as soon as the police disappeared, the shacks re-appeared.
		Khayelitsha is a mix of old and new, formal and informal and affluent and poor.
		There are housing projects which are continuously on the go, to alleviate the housing problems, but shacks are continuously being erected by the steady stream of people arriving from the Eastern Cape.
	www.nomvuyos-tours.co.za /township_info.shtml (456 words)

	Khayelitsha Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Khayelitsha is part of the City of Cape Town's Metro South East Region; commonly know as Cape Town's poverty trap.
		It is estimated that 50.81% of the economically active population is unemployed and that 90% of households earn less than R3500 a month.
		Key challenges facing Khayelitsha are overcrowded living conditions and a lack of land for formal housing.
	www.dplg.gov.za /html/progs/urpNodes/KhayelitshaProfile.htm (503 words)

	Welcome to Health-e
		For many Khayelitsha residents, water is a shared tap, sanitation a non-existent luxury and diarrhoea, a constant reality.
		By mid- 2004, 60 Khayelitsha toddlers had died of diarrhoeal disease, a preventable and treatable illness.
		Khayelitsha carried 23% of the Cape Town burden, with 1 612 of every 100 000 people infected.
	www.health-e.org.za /news/article.php?uid=20031372 (1347 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news CCTV cameras rolling in Khayelitsha
		The fight against crime in Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's most crime-ridden suburbs, received a welcome boost on Friday with the unveiling of three new closed circuit TV cameras.
		Another 33 cameras are expected to be in operation in Khayelitsha and neighbouring Mitchell's Plain by the end of October.
		The Goodwood centre is one of two CCTV monitoring units in the city — the other situated in the CBD — and includes 25 staff and 60 TV monitors.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/266551.htm (424 words)

	Integrated Response to Community Conflict
		A launch of mediation training took place in Khayelitsha to teach gardeners and church members mediation skills so that they can resolve conflicts peacefully within their organizations and communities.
		The mediators in Khayelitsha face considerable challenges as criminal activities are escalating in the area.
		Twenty-six mediators from Khayelitsha completed a mediation course and received their certificates during a graduation ceremony.
	www.quaker.org /capetown/report03/ircc.htm (484 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Changing SA's townships through opera
		Outside the venue for the premiere - a converted sports hall in the impoverished former township of Khayelitsha - life is hard, rows of shacks with corrugated iron roofs stretch into the distance.
		It is the first operatic film to be made in South Africa's Xhosa language, it is the first African film to win the coveted Golden Bear for best picture at the Berlin Film festival and it is the first mainstream film to use actors almost exclusively from the townships.
		After a standing ovation at the end of the film, people at the premiere I spoke to were gushing about what it had achieved both artistically and socially.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4378331.stm (903 words)

	Baphumelele Children’s Home: Khayelitsha - Cape Town, South Africa
		Set in the crime ridden township of Khayelitsha, inhabited by one million people and located just 20 km northeast of downtown Cape Town, Baphumelele grew out of one of the most destitute shack settlements in South Africa.
		In 1989 Rosalie Mashale, a trained primary school teacher, moved from the Eastern Cape to Khayelitsha.
		She was extremely disturbed to see young children going through garbage dumps and looking for food and without any supervision while their parents were away at work.
	www.childrenofsouthafrica.org /about_bap.html (462 words)

	Khayelitsha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The CAPS survey has of course a good proportion of households living in these informal settlements, and since it is the gola of the survey to follow households over a couple of years, effort is made to find out where housholds have moved etc.
		On Monday, I could accompany some people from the CAPS project to Khayelitsha, a township in the southeast of the metropolitan area.
		It is pretty intense to see the situation in some parts of the townships, and I could take some pictures (David Lam made some with me also, but it is an open question how often I will have to remind him of that before I get those images...).
	www-personal.umich.edu /~lindners/africa2006/khayelitsha.html (323 words)

	Khayelitsha
		The informal settlement of Harare, Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa is part of the enormous legacy of poverty inherited from years of racial segregation under the system of apartheid.
		A friend shared her feelings after attending Simone's funeral, and I would like to share them with you, with her permission, I think she sums up beautifully the sorrow and the hope of the morning.
		Today I was fetched at 8:30am and taken by Reverend Rachel Mash to the Fikelela Centre in Mandela Park in Khayelitsha.
	home.btconnect.com /stfranciswgc/khayelitsha.htm (1450 words)

	Learn To Earn ~ Branch ~ Khayelitsha (http://www.LearnToEarn.org.za/)
		Khayelitsha (means New Home) has over 1 million residents.
		An estimated 30% of the population is unemployed, of which 60% are under the age of 30.
		The formal sector inside Khayelitsha employs only a mere 8% of the estimated labour force.
	www.learntoearn.org.za /default.aspx?ToDo=kha (130 words)

	South Africa Community Fund :: Community Grants / Khayelitsha Craft Market
		Khayelitsha is the largest Black city in the Cape Town area created during the Apartheid era.
		The half million residents of Khayelitsha were simply bedded there in order to provide cheap labor to White industry needs in the Cape region.
		Now, on this side of independence, 40% of Khayelitsha residents are unemployed.
	southafricacommunityfund.org /cg/kcm.asp (158 words)

	Quaker Peace Center - News
		As soon as the Mitchell's Plain residents arrived at Mrs Mhango's home, they were greeted by their fellow participants from Khayelitsha, many of whom were dressed in traditional Xhosa wear.
		After a long round of questions and feasting, the Mitchell's plan and Khayelitsha residents made their way to Tafelsig.
		As they made their way to the presentation, the Khayelitsha residents broke out in traditional African song and dance.
	www.quaker.org /capetown/news0506.htm (634 words)

	Baphumelele - Khayelitsha
		Khayelitsha is still one of the most margialised and poverty stricken townships in South Africa.
		Many people still do not have access to clean water, electricity and sanitation and live in self-constructed wooden "shacks".
		The unemployment rate is in reality much higher than the official figure of 50%.
	www.baphumelele.org.za /kathrin_gallery1.htm (48 words)

	MARAIS AND DA HAVE NO ANSWER TO KHAYELITSHA DEMANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Instead of allowing the leadership of 5000 Khayelitsha residents who had marched to the venue where a swimming pool was about to be opened to read out a memorandum, Peter Marais decided to leave the event.
		This is not the first time that the Mayor for Khayelitsha does not come from ANC.
		The former mayor of Tygerberg, Lukas Olivier was warmly welcomed by the people of Khayelitsha because he came to build bridges and to unite.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/2001/pr0330b.html (434 words)

	Cape Argus: Mthatha, not Khayelitsha, is SA rape capital
		The rate for Khayelitsha is derived from a figure of 623 rapes in the area which has a population of about 500 000.
		The figures are contained in the latest crime statics report of the SA Police Services which was released 10 days ago.
		They reveal Mthatha to be more dangerous than Khayelitsha where there were 219 murders in the 2005/2006 year, and Hillbrow in Johannesburg, where there were 107 murders in 2005/6.
	www.capeargus.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=3475590 (715 words)

	Khayelitsha Cookie Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		We believe that businesses can play a tremendous role in helping to bridge the gap between those who have and those who do not have.
		We believe that the Khayelitsha Cookie Company is playing an important part in society by devising and creating unique ways to improve the lives of our employees.
		We believe that to ensure sustainability, the Khayelitsha Cookie Company must produce cookies that surpass your expectations and that our business fundamentals must be excellent.
	www.khayelitshacookies.com /pages/about.htm (272 words)

	trevitron: A Weekend in Khayelitsha
		I must say that since moving into Khayelitsha, probably the thing that makes me the happiest is to just spend time with my family, eating or sitting around the TV.
		Thando and I went to the Khayelitsha mall to meet someone who owed him money, the man we were supposed to visit in Nyaga on Saturday.
		The three of us were all really surprised and impressed by his place, it seemed: he must've had one of the nicest homes in Khayelitsha, with the biggest TV I've seen there and satellite television.
	trevitron.livejournal.com /98090.html (7455 words)

	J Radebe: Launch of Khayelitsha Rail Line Extension
		We have for instance embarked on a renewed attempt to plan and provide the long awaited and desired rail extension in Khayelitsha due to the more than 450 000 people who live in Khayelitsha.
		This project is an integral part of the public transport development plan in the Cape region and it is viewed as a transport corridor project since it is essentially a partnership between the Department of Transport (DoT), the SARCC Metrorail and the City of Cape Town.
		The provincial government and the City of Cape Town generally regard the KRE project as the anchor project in the Urban Renewal Programme for the region.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2006/06101112151002.htm (955 words)

	Interview with Sindiswa Mahuza - Unemployed Women Create Vegetable Gardens in Khayelitsha - Global Eyes / In Motion ...
		is an urban agricultural fieldworker with Abalimi Bezekhaya in Khayelitsha, South Africa.
		This interview was conducted by Nic Paget-Clarke for In Motion Magazine, August 29, 2002 during the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg at a parallel event, the Small-Scale Farmers Convergence, held at Shaft 17, near Soweto.
		We've got a lot of groups in all areas in Khayelitsha.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /global/sm1.html (757 words)

	Khayelitsha Anti-Eviction Campaign to protest outside Khayelitsha court : IMC-SA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Khayelitsha Anti-Eviction Campaign to protest outside Khayelitsha court
		With unemployment rampant, this has caused a crisis in Khayelitsha.
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	southafrica.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=2950 (310 words)

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