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Travel - South Africa, Townships

Details from some of the townships located around Cape Town, South Africa with a particular focus on the Wallacedene township near Stellenbosch.
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A view of an informal settlement or township near Cape Town, South Africa. The small homes are built of scraps of tin and plywood to provide shelter.
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A view of an informal settlement or township near Cape Town, South Africa. The small homes are built of scraps of tin and plywood to provide shelter.

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  • A fairly typical home in a South African township. These shacks are often built with whatever materials can be found.
  • Reaching for the sun in a South African township, a child's hand grasps the wires on a fence as if stretching for freedom. The sunburst is located at the tip of the middle finger.
  • A typical shanty home in a South Africa township that is representative of the housing found in the informal settlements that are located around the edges of many cities throughout the country.
  • A full load of newly cleaned shirts are drying in the warm sun while hanging from a clothesline in a South African township.
  • A group of three schoolchildren viewed through the remnants of a broken window at a pre-school in a township in South Africa. The sharp shards of broken glass are symbolic for a culture where there is hope but still great difficulty in enabling pesonal achievement.
  • A handmade cloth saying God Is Love. This covers the altar of a make-shift church in the township of Kayamandi, South Africa.
  • A pair of blue and red handprints on a white concrete wall make a colorful display on a preschool wall in a township in South Africa.
  • The mountains near the city of Stellenbosch, South Africa as seen through a broken glass window in the informatl settlement of Kayamundi.
  • An empty playground for a preschool and church in Kayamandi township in South Africa. With just a swing set and the bare ground, it is fairly typical.
  • A view of the township of Wallacedene in South Africa on an overcast day.
  • A broken window provides a frame to view the urban cityscape and residential neighborhood of the Wallacedene Township in South Africa.
  • The interior of a classroom in a South African township. The blackboard has the current material for the class. The wooden desks are covered with graffiti.
  • A broken window, with cracks radiating from the shattered hole in the center, in a high school in a South Africa township near Cape Town symbolizes a future life with little or no hope.
  • A pot of sheep's head soup being cooked over an open fire in a township near Cape Town, South Africa. In the background, corrugated tin sheets cover the walls of the shacks surrounding the cooking area.
  • Two hands holding an old, well-used prayer book at a Methodist church service on Sunday are symbolic of faith of South African people. Note: shallow depth of field is focused on just the thumb and the nearby text.
  • A basket being passed around at a Methodist Church in a South African township to collect donations.
  • A view of an informal settlement or township near Cape Town, South Africa. The small homes are built of scraps of tin and plywood to provide shelter.
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