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Know Your City is a global campaign of Slum Dwellers International (SDI), United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-A), and Cities Alliance. Around the world, slum dwellers collect city-wide data and information on informal settlements. This work creates alternative systems of knowledge that are owned by the communities and have become the basis of a unique social and political argument that supports an informed and united voice of the urban poor. SDI’s databases are becoming the largest repositories of informal settlement data in the world and the first port of call for researchers, policy makers, local governments and national governments.

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135 DUSTING

Established: 1981

THEY WERE RENTING THE PLACE UNTIL THE LANDLORD PASSED AWAY

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A.T MICHAEL MAPHONGWANA

Established: 1992

In1990 there was a fight amongst the president of Site C, A section that resulted to the establishment…

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Aloes

Established: 1930

We were moved from the top of the hill because the land was earmarked for a railway track.…

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ANGELO

Established: 1993

FROM HERE WE STARTED STAYING AT THE HOTEL AND WE WERE CHASED AWAY FROM MINE BUILDINGS (HOTEL). THERE…

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AT 5

Established: 1987

PEOPLE WERE COMING TO DIFFERENT PLACES TO THIS SETTLEMENT THAT'S WHY THE IS THIS SETTLEMENT AT 5

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AT 6

Established: 1985

WE WERE COMING FROM CROSS ROAD AND THEN WE MOVED HERE THATS WHEN AT SETTLEMENT STARTED

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AT TRACK

Established: 1992

PEOPLE WERE COMING FROM DIFFERENT PLACES COMING TO THIS SETTLEMENT THAT WAS IN 1992

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BAGDAD/ PHANTSI KOCINGO

Established: 2002

2002 THEY MOVED FROM THE PLACE CALLED SECTION 11 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND THEY MOVED TO UNDER THE…

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BALA ELIBOMVU

Established: 2007

WE WERE BACKYADERS AND THEY WERE BUILDING HOUSES AND THE WAS NO SPACE FOR US AND WE DECIDE…

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BARCELONA

Established: 1995

THEY WERE PROMISED TO GET HOUSES, REMOVE THEM TO MFULENI IN BADELI

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BARDALE

Established: 2007

WE CAME FROM KHAYELITSHA NEXT TO THE RAILWAY LINE. METRO RAIL BOUGHT THE LAND FROM THE CITY FOR…

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BBT STOOP

Established: 1970

THIS SETTLEMENT WAS MADE OF BACKYARDS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, THE PLACE WAS USED FOR A CRECHE (EBHANYABHANYA) COLOURED,…

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