Gugulethu is passionately called or referred to as "Gugs" by the locals, which is a nickname stemming from the shortening of the name Gugulethu.īlack residents living in Windermere were forcibly moved to Gugulethu when it was declared a black township. The predominant language in Gugulethu is Xhosa.
During the Apartheid era black South Africans were not permitted to live in the city of Cape Town, and many people were removed from areas such as District Six to Gugulethu, Nyanga, and Langa. Gugulethu, along with Nyanga, was established in the 1960s due to the overcrowding of Langa, which was the only black residential area for Cape Town at the time. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride. The township was established along with Nyanga in the 1960s. Its name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride.
Gugulethu is a township in the Western Cape, South Africa and is 15 km from Cape Town.
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