Gugulethu

Gugulethu
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).
Gugulethu is located in Western Cape
Gugulethu
Gugulethu
Gugulethu is located in South Africa
Gugulethu
Gugulethu
Gugulethu is located in Africa
Gugulethu
Gugulethu
Coordinates: 33°59′S 18°34′E / 33.983°S 18.567°E / -33.983; 18.567
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceWestern Cape
MunicipalityCity of Cape Town
Main PlaceCape Town
Government
 • CouncillorMelody 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
 • Density15,000/km2 (39,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African98.6%
 • Coloured0.9%
 • Indian/Asian0.1%
 • Other0.4%
First languages (2011)
 • Xhosa88.6%
 • English3.6%
 • Sotho1.9%
 • Afrikaans1.7%
 • Other4.2%
Time zoneUTC+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]

  1. ^ a b c d "Main Place Gugulethu". Census 2011.
  2. ^ Busgeeth, Karishma; Rivett, Ulrike (2004-07-07). "The use of a spatial information system in the management of HIV/AIDS in South Africa". International Journal of Health Geographics. 3 (1): 13. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-13. ISSN 1476-072X. PMC 471560. PMID 15239839.
  3. ^ "Gugulethu Township". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2019-12-27.