What was once regarded as a burden to South Africa’s white ruling class in times of Apartheid, is becoming a hub of black-owned businesses and future home to an innovative “jeans rehab” center.

South Africa: The Family Home in South African Townships Is Contested - Why Occupation, Inheritance and History Are Clashing With Laws fiverlocker / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Soweto in 2008.

South Africa has over 700,000 registered small businesses. In the townships these include hair salons, taverns, car repair shops, laundromats and others sometimes operating out of people’s homes.

The neighbourhood that hungry South Africans flock to on Monday nights is a township called Alexandra, or Alex. This densely-populated district is often associated with poverty and crime. pkg ...

South African Township Visiting the Nelson Mandela home is as much a pilgrimage as a sightseeing moment. This simple house, in Johannesburg, where he lived from the 1940s to the 1960s, is brimming ...

South Africa’s modern rondavels: family homes may be changing, but traditions remain Sinenhlanhla Memela, Rhodes University Wed, January 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM UTC ...

The father of three runs a small motor repair shop in the township of Tsakane ... and others sometimes operating out of ...