List of slums in South Africa

Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements.[1] The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.

A shantytown in Cape Flats, Cape Town

Amanzimtoti edit

Ballito edit

  • Shaka's Head

Cape Town edit

 
Khayelitsha in 2015

Durban edit

Durbanville edit

East London edit

Fish Hoek edit

George edit

 
Map of Thembalethu showing zone of slum

Hout Bay edit

Johannesburg edit

Kempton Park edit

Kraaifontein edit

KwaDukuza edit

Margate edit

  • KwaMasinenge

Mbombela edit

  • KaNyamazane
  • Matafeni (Mataffin)
  • Matsulu

oThongathi edit

  • Hambanathi

Paarl edit

Pinetown edit

Port Elizabeth edit

Port Shepstone edit

Randburg edit

  • Cosmo City

Rustenburg edit

Stellenbosch edit

Strand edit

Verulam edit

  • Waterloo

See also edit

References edit

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  10. ^ Smit, Suzanne; Musango, Josephine Kaviti; Kovacic, Zora; Brent, Alan C (February 2017). "Conceptualising slum in an urban African context". Cities. 62: 107–119. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.12.018.