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town*ship ("taun-"ship)n. 15th century. (1) an ancient unit of administration in England identical in area with or a division of a parish. (2) a division or territory in surveys of U.S. public land containing 36 sections or 36 square miles. (3) an area in the Republic of South Africa segregated for occupation by persons of non-European descent.
Cape Town
Khayelitsha, 20 miles outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Thousands were moved here in the 1960s when the apartheid regime demolished the racially mixed District Six neighborhood in the heart of Cape Town to make room for whites. Residents of Khayelitsha are prohibited from building permanent structures on the sandy plots, so houses are patched together with undersized beams, laminate wood, and rusty corrugated metal sheets. On the dusty streets outside, a second generation of Khayelitsha children play with miniature Pokemon disks ...