GE,NIAL PRESENTATIO

Townships

South Africa

Overview

Timeline

Origination

The apartheid

Pro and Contra

Facts

Video

Quote

Community

2-faced pictures

Development

Good and bad

Soweto

Thanks

Downsides

Picture

Quiz

Sources

Vocabs

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Township - Definition

areas that were created under the apartheid legislation for the exclusive occupation of "peoples race". They are often underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas.

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Township - Definition

areas that were created under the apartheid legislation for the exclusive occupation of "peoples race".They are often underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas.

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The apartheid

Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”) is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white minority and the nonwhite majority of South Africa during the 20th century. -Britannica.com

Info

Timeline

Timeline

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1948-1975

1976-1993

1923-1947

1900-1922

1994-2004

Early segregation

Apartheid

Apartheid Dismantled

Segregation consolidated

Democratisation

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How townships originated

• Blacks were evicted from „white only" properties and areas

→ forced to more into segregated townships → in the early 1900

• separate townships for the three designated non-white race

Facts about townships

• ca. 35% of South Africa's households live in townships (21,7 Mil / 59,3 Mil)

• Who?

black people, bipoc (black, indigenous, people of color), poor people

• Where ?

- in almost every city - next to the "normal", developed city

• Largest township = Khayelitsha

-(1 million people)

1 country - 2 worlds

Society divided in 2

pros and cons

• Township schools are often overcrowded and lack adequate infrastructure
• Gangs and Criminality → dangerous
• Not much electricity
• Little water access ability
• Houses are built on non-owned lands by the occupier → it's illegal → no proper service because there is no controling government

• Lack of sanitation

→ no Bathroom facilities or running water

• homes are easily flooded when it's raining hard
• houses are built of whatever they find like: wood, tin

→ Living conditions are very hard

• Sense of community
• A lot of nature
• Living there is way less expensive
• People maintain a level of responsibility for each other
• Development in some townships

"If I win the lottery I would… well, I would first go to Jamaica for a week,” she says as we all laugh (“Classic Thembi!” Mama exclaims!) “But truly speaking,” Thembi continues, “I’ll come back and still stay here because there’s no feeling when you wake up in the morning and you hear ‘hi meza’ (meza means neighbour), and you know you’re home.” “Even if I go away for two days, I get homesick. I miss the noises, the colours, the ripeness, the love, the togetherness.”

Mama Swartbooi

2-faced

It always depends where you are. Often inhabitants can change the whole picture

Community

community makes the township colourful

thriving sense of community

neighbours help

Even though there is a lot of criminality people still become protective over each other because they live connected like family

Often assisted by neighbours even though both are poor

most people want to get out but:

Minimum privacy

Limited privacy allows people to know what is going on in their neighbours life

• Lack of education and employment - no safe future
• discrimination

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Poor areas there are also neighborhoods with the most bitter poverty that should not be entered even during the day.

Good areas There are relatively prosperous areas that are medium-sized settlements with normal infrastructure. In recent years, various shopping malls have been built there

Example of a Township

Soweto

• Most famous township
• in Johannesburg
• 1,3 million inhabitants

• changed already
• Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu lived there

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Development

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• South Africa spends billions in euros per year to improve living conditions in the townships progress is slow •Lack of resources, incompentency, corruption and the constant influx of many people who do not notice the progress among all residents. •The ANC government promised to improve the living conditions of all the poor when it took office •Great progress in the medical and school sector but hardly anything in housing conditions •Still areas without running water and electricity.

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2008

Violent conflicts

Downside

1/2 <

Of the population is unemployed

•The impatience of the residents is repeatedly reflected in violent conflicts riots against foreigners in 2008 → their huts were burned down and several dozen refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa were killed more than half of the population is unemployed in the townships → no merit, no cent of support from the state side People are fleeing the gray everyday life into alcohol and drugs. → In Sheebens, small pubs, cheap alcohol is sold → Tik is the most widespread drug in Cape Town the crimes for which South Africa is so notorious are committed all over the world → in most cases, these acts of violence are limited to these areas

80%

of male youth deaths are alcohol-related and drug consumption

526,000

South Africans were murdered from 1994 to 2019.

Thanks!

Quiz

1. What is the definition of a township2. What is the biggest township in South Africa ?3. After which "concept" where people segregated ? 4. When did the apartheid start ? 5. How many people live in townships? 6. What are negativ aspects about townships ?

Vocabulary

Picture sources

Information sources

• https://www.mywanderlust.pl/life-in-south-african-townships/
• https://www.kapstadt-entdecken.de/reiseinformationen-suedafrika/township/
• https://www.slideshare.net/jmvrudny/township-life
• https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_4186
• https://www.stadtgeo.uni-kiel.de/de/team/apl.-prof.-dr.-rer.-nat.-ulrich-juergens/artikel-material/Townships%20in%20South%20African%20cities.pdf
• https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjj2oCAkvD2AhV9SPEDHWJOCv4QFnoECAUQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCrime_in_South_Africa&usg=AOvVaw3WW_qNc503MuZhMNb1N3W7

• https://www.timetravelturtle.com/kayamandi-township-stellenbosch-south-africa/
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
• https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/world/africa/30safrica.html
• https://southafrica-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Map_poverty_headcount_South_Africa.png
• https://www.google.de/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsouthafrica-info.com%2Fpeople%2Fmapping-poverty-in-south-africa%2F&psig=AOvVaw08lKgBqoUezNhv4C_8BreX&ust=1648809951046000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAkQjhxqFwoTCIj0ue2V8PYCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

Information sources

Picture sources

• https:/Lafricascope:sa.com/2920/19/97/township-megatrends-southafriças:township-potential-atlas/

• https://www.adventurouskate.com/township-life-meet-alexandra- south-afriçal

• https://www.kapstadt-entdecken.de/reiseinformationen-suedafrika/township/

• https://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/weltspiegel/videos/sue.dafrika-selbstversuch-im-township:100.html

• https://businesstech.co.za/news/trending/132269/these-are-the-biggest-townships-in-south-afriça/

• https://southafrica-info.com/people/mapping-poverty-in=south=africa/

• https://www.kapstadt.de/reisefuehrer/townships

• https(/blog.prit.org/2219/19/08/xenoph@big-violenge-and-s@atial jngawality_in=sgutb-africa/
• https://www.getyourguide.de/soweto-l1100/