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The other side of touristy Cape Town. The "Cape Flats" is the name given to the large, flat plain south-east of Cape Town, which stretches as far as False Bay. It consists of a considerable number of townships in which the majority of colored and black people live. The townships are made up in the same way as the population. Most of the townships are inhabited by people of color and four of them are inhabited almost exclusively by black people.
The names of the townships sound quite exotic, such as: Bishop Lavis, Steenberg, Hanoverpark, Bonteheuwel, Manenberg, Elsies River, Langa (translated: Sun), Nyanga (translated: Moon), Gugulethu (translated: Our Pride) and Khayelitsha (translated: Our New House). The houses are usually small and overcrowded and in most townships there are entire blocks and streets where criminal gangs have everything firmly under control. Drug dealing, rape, robbery and theft as well as murders are unfortunately the order of the day here.