A Khayelitsha-based travel agency has grown from hosting three tourists a year to welcoming more than 1 000 annual visitors. Co-founders Buntu Matole and Ayanda Cuba launched the business to showcase ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the township streets of Khayelitsha to the summits of some of the world’s highest mountains, Monde Steven Sitole, 35, has spent his life defying the odds and he’s not done yet. The Nyanga-born ...

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 ...