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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Temporary toilets stand in front of shacks in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa, October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo By Paola Totaro CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) ...

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 ...