Gugulethu
Gugulethu | |
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From top, Mzoli's restaurant & butchery. A spaza shop/grocery run out of an informal house (centre left). A roadside meat market operating out of a household (centre right). The Gugulethu Seven Memorial (bottom). | |
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| Coordinates: 33°59′S 18°34′E / 33.983°S 18.567°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Western Cape |
| Municipality | City of Cape Town |
| Main Place | Cape Town |
| Government | |
| • Councillor | Melody Klaas (ANC) (Ward 40) (Belinda) Ntombende Landingwe (Ward 41) (ANC) Mandisa Matshoba (Ward 42) (ANC) Faiza Adams (Ward 45) (DA) |
| Area | |
• Total | 6.49 km2 (2.51 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 98,468 |
| • Density | 15,200/km2 (39,300/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 98.6% |
| • Coloured | 0.9% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.1% |
| • Other | 0.4% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Xhosa | 88.6% |
| • English | 3.6% |
| • Sotho | 1.9% |
| • Afrikaans | 1.7% |
| • Other | 4.2% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 7750, 7752, 7756 |
Gugulethu is a township in Western Cape, South Africa and is around 20km from Cape Town. Its name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride / our hope. The area was the third township to be established in Cape Town, after Nyanga and Langa.