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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Established: 1981
THEY WERE RENTING THE PLACE UNTIL THE LANDLORD PASSED AWAY
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Meyerton
Established: 1992
In1990 there was a fight amongst the president of Site C, A section that resulted to the establishment…
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Cape town
Established: 1930
We were moved from the top of the hill because the land was earmarked for a railway track.…
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Port elizabeth
Established: 1993
FROM HERE WE STARTED STAYING AT THE HOTEL AND WE WERE CHASED AWAY FROM MINE BUILDINGS (HOTEL). THERE…
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Boksburg
Established: 1987
PEOPLE WERE COMING TO DIFFERENT PLACES TO THIS SETTLEMENT THAT'S WHY THE IS THIS SETTLEMENT AT 5
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Cape town
Established: 1985
WE WERE COMING FROM CROSS ROAD AND THEN WE MOVED HERE THATS WHEN AT SETTLEMENT STARTED
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Cape town
Established: 1992
PEOPLE WERE COMING FROM DIFFERENT PLACES COMING TO THIS SETTLEMENT THAT WAS IN 1992
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Cape town
Established: 2002
2002 THEY MOVED FROM THE PLACE CALLED SECTION 11 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND THEY MOVED TO UNDER THE…
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Cape town
Established: 2007
WE WERE BACKYADERS AND THEY WERE BUILDING HOUSES AND THE WAS NO SPACE FOR US AND WE DECIDE…
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Cape town
Established: 1995
THEY WERE PROMISED TO GET HOUSES, REMOVE THEM TO MFULENI IN BADELI
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Cape town
Established: 2007
WE CAME FROM KHAYELITSHA NEXT TO THE RAILWAY LINE. METRO RAIL BOUGHT THE LAND FROM THE CITY FOR…
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Cape town
Established: 1970
THIS SETTLEMENT WAS MADE OF BACKYARDS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, THE PLACE WAS USED FOR A CRECHE (EBHANYABHANYA) COLOURED,…
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Cape town
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