Townships

A "township" is a term from the Apartheid era, and refers to an urban area where none-whites live. I guess the term itself can be used as a synonym for ghetto, favella, borough, shantytown maybe even slum... because they are all very alike.But if you look closely at the description, you'll notice that a township has nothing to do with the type of houses. Indeed townships can have the whole range from normal brik houses down to little shacksout of plates of corrugated iron. A squatter camp is different in the sense that it is illegal: people moved there and started living there although it was not approved by the goyvernment.Most cities have townships, and they vary from well organized - having tarred roads and electricity, running water, sewage, garbage collection - to not organized at all.Gugulethu is one of the biggest townships of Cape Town, housing mainly Xhosa speaking South Africans. The name is a contraction of "igugu lethu", which is Xhosa for "our pride".