GE,NIAL PRESENTATIO

Townships

South Africa

Overview

The apartheid

Facts

Quote

Community

Timeline

Video

Soweto

2-faced pictures

Origination

Pro and Contra

Vocabs

Good and bad

Thanks

Sources

Downsides

Development

Picture

Quiz

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.

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.

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

1900-1922

Early segregation

1923-1947

Apartheid Dismantled

Apartheid

1948-1975

Segregation consolidated

1976-1993

Timeline

+ info

Timeline

Democratisation

1994-2004

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

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

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

pros and cons

"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

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

2-faced

Community

community makes the township colourful

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

thriving sense of community

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

Minimum privacy

most people want to get out but:

Often assisted by neighbours even though both are poor

neighbours help

Lack of education and employment - no safe future
discrimination

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

Poor areas

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

Most famous township
in Johannesburg
1,3 million inhabitants

changed already
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu lived there

Soweto

Example of a Township

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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.

Development

Downside

•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

2008

526,000

Violent conflicts

1/2 <

80%

Of the population is unemployed

of male youth deaths are alcohol-related and drug consumption

South Africans were murdered from 1994 to 2019.

Thanks!

Quiz

1. What is the definition of a township

2. 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

Information sources

Picture sources

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

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

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/

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