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). | |
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)[1] | |
• Total | 98,468 |
• Density | 15,000/km2 (39,000/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.[2] Its name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride / our hope. The township was established along with Nyanga in the 1960s.[3]