CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had one goal: to get more of them into cycling. Known as ...

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KHAYELITSHA TOWNSHIP, South Africa (AlertNet) - Five years ago, Nozipho Nodliwa's shack in this sprawling township on the outskirts of Cape Town caught fire and was destroyed. She and 500 others, ...

Khayelitsha -- which means "new home" in Xhosa (one of South Africa's 11 official languages) -- is the largest township in Cape Town. In South Africa, townships are the often underdeveloped, racially ...