Guguletu

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Guguletu or Gugulethu is a township 15 km from Cape Town, South Africa^[1]. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride. Guguletu, along with Nyanga, was established in the 1960's due to the overcrowding of Langa, which was the only black residential area for Cape Town at the time. During the Apartheid era black South Africans were not permitted to live in the city of Cape Town, and many people were removed from areas such as District Six to Guguletu, Nyanga and Langa. The predominant language in Guguletu is Xhosa.

The main route NY1 runs through the township. The apartheid planners did not give names to any of the roads, all were simply numbered. NY1 stood for NATIVE YARDS 1. There is a strong pressure for many of the apartheid era terms to be named properly.

Nowadays many developments take place and have taken place to develop the townships into suburbs where life can flourish. Mzoli's and Tiger's are some of the better known hotspots in Gugulethu. CapeTownMagazine.com, Cape Town's Internet magazine, has an ever growing section on things to do in Gugulethu [1].