Drive around Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's biggest and fastest-growing townships, and football is impossible to ignore. There are hundreds of teams, thousands of players and five dedicated local ...

With the festive season around the corner, the City of Cape Town is shining the spotlight on township tourism and the economy. On Monday morning 28 November, the City launched the Khayelitsha Tourism ...

Cape Town - Climbs the wooden steps to the top of Lookout Hill, a lone koppie standing on the sandy expanse of the Cape Flats, and you can look down over Khayelitsha’s vast eastward sprawl. Look north ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had one goal: to get more of them into cycling. Known as ...

Khayelitsha -- which means "new home" in Xhosa (one of South Africa's 11 official languages) -- is the largest township in Cape Town. In South Africa, townships are the often underdeveloped, racially ...

KHAYELITSHA TOWNSHIP, South Africa (AlertNet) - Five years ago, Nozipho Nodliwa's shack in this sprawling township on the outskirts of Cape Town caught fire and was destroyed. She and 500 others, ...

This Christmas, Khayelitsha's pets and their owners received a heartwarming boost as 332 food gift packs were distributed, ...

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, a dog is held in a cage while awaiting surgery at the Mdzananda clinic, in the Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa. The Mdzananda animal ...

A plan to build the first private hospital in Khayelitsha faces a setback and possible disruption after clashes over the proposed relocation of informal settlement residents. Families that live in two ...

Before the pandemic, when tourists flocked to Cape Town, they often ignored Khayelitsha township. Crammed with more than half a million people – somewhere between the winelands and beaches of this ...

Starting a business is tough anywhere. But when you live in a place where many people lack basic services, such as electricity and toilets, it's even harder. These are the obstacles facing new ...