List of slums in South Africa explained

Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements.^[1] The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.

Amanzimtoti

• KwaMakhutha

Ballito

• Shaka's Head

Cape Town

• Bonteheuwel
• Crossroads
• Du Noon^[2]
• Flamingo Crescent
• Gugulethu
• Joe Slovo^[3]
• Khayelitsha^[4]
• Langa
• Mfuleni
• Mitchells Plain- 310,485 inhabitants in 2011.
• Nyanga
• Philippi
• Santini

Durban

• Chatsworth
• Inanda
• Kennedy Road^[5]
• KwaMashu - 175,663 inhabitants in 2011.
• Ntuzuma
• Piesangriver^[6]

Durbanville

• Fisantekraal
• Klipheuwel

East London

• • Duncan Village Mdantsane - 156,835 inhabitants in 2011.^[7]

Fish Hoek

• Masiphumelele

George

• Thembalethu

Hout Bay

• Imizamo Yethu

Johannesburg

• Alexandra - 179,624 inhabitants in 2011.
• Kanana Park
• Soweto - 1,271,628 inhabitants in 2011.^[8]

Kraaifontein

• Bloekombos
• Wallacedene

KwaDukuza

• Nkobongo (adjoining Shakaskraal)

Margate

• KwaMasinenge

Mbombela

• KaNyamazane
• Matafeni (Mataffin)

oThongathi

• Hambanathi

Paarl

• Mbekweni

Pinetown

• Clermont
• KwaDabeka
• Mpumalanga (Hammarsdale)
• Tshelimnyama

Port Elizabeth

• Ibhayi - 237,799 inhabitants in 2011.
• Motherwell

Port Shepstone

• Gamalakhe

Randburg

• Cosmo City

Rustenburg

• Freedom Park - estimated size 25,000 people in 2008.^[9]

Stellenbosch

• Enkanini^[10]
• Kayamandi

Strand

• Lwandle
• Nomzamo

Verulam

• Waterloo

See also

• List of slums
• Urbanization in Africa

Notes and References

1. Murray . Colin . Displaced Urbanization: South Africa's Rural Slums . African Affairs . 1987 . 86 . 344 . 311–329 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097916 . 722745 . 0001-9909.
2. News: SA violence spreads to Cape Town . 18 April 2022 . BBC News . 23 May 2008.
3. News: Staff writer . 'It's our duty not to be silent' . 18 April 2022 . The Mail & Guardian . 24 August 2008 . en-ZA.
4. News: Milne . Nicky . The tale of two slums in South Africa as residents seek to upgrade lives . 18 April 2022 . Reuters . 14 December 2016 . en.
5. News: Africa . Richard PithouseTopics: Movements Places . Struggle Is a School: The Rise of a Shack Dwellers' Movement in Durban, South Africa . 18 April 2022 . Monthly Review . 1 February 2006.
6. Huchzermeyer . Marie . A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research . September 2003 . 27 . 3 . 591–612 . 10.1111/1468-2427.00468.
7. News: Njabulo Ndebele: Behind sweaty windows – reflections on the boxing Mecca of South Africa . 18 April 2022 . Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study . 18 April 2016.
8. News: Staff Writer . These are the biggest townships in South Africa . 18 April 2022 . Business Tech . 14 August 2016.
9. News: Hope in a shipping container clinic . 18 April 2022 . The New Humanitarian . 25 August 2008 . en.
10. Smit . Suzanne . Musango . Josephine Kaviti . Kovacic . Zora . Brent . Alan C . Conceptualising slum in an urban African context . Cities . February 2017 . 62 . 107–119 . 10.1016/j.cities.2016.12.018.