![]() But now, he added, there are numerous establishments in the township, population 450,000, whose owners “know what it is that we love, we want. “People used to go to town,” he said, referring to Cape Town, for a good time. On a recent evening, 36-year-old Ncedo Silas - looking ready for the office with a sweater zipped to his neck and thick clear-framed glasses - bobbed inside one of the clubs with a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd basking in an eye-burning haze of hookah. Some people sell alcohol from the trunks of their cars, while others peddle joints outside the clubs. They were established in the late nineteenth. ![]() Several Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs are among cars parked along the road, while smoke wafts from the grills of dozens of food vendors. South African townships are underdeveloped urban communities usually located on the outskirts of towns or cities. ![]() But along a roughly quarter-mile stretch of Spine Road, a major thoroughfare, blue-and-yellow lights glow from bare wooden structures that vibrate with the electronic beats of the wildly popular South African genre amapiano. At night, quiet and darkness shroud much of Khayelitsha, a township outside of Cape Town. In South Africa, black people make up 79.5 of the population but 95 of township population as stated by Sandeep in 'Economics of South African Townships.' In 2011, the working age population increased by five million but only 1.1 million jobs were added in South Africa. ![]()
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