If fortunate, you might even catch some free public performances by local musicians and artists.Let’s start with some background on Langa. At the taxi rank you will see many small businesses selling their wares and services including braai (barbecue). See how the township transportation system works. Since Africans are very superstitious, meeting the witchdoctor will make you understand township life from a spiritual viewpoint. This witchdoctor is available for consultation by all visitors at a minimal price. > Walk through the art and craft market where you have the opportunity to buy locally made art and craft.

> Hear the heart-rending stories of great-grandchildren of migrant workers that lived in the ‘bachelor flats’ whilst their wives and kids worked at farms many kilometers. You may even learn how to play the African drum > If its a Sunday morning visit local church for an African Worship experience. > Learn a bit of Xhosa for greeting the locals as you tour Langa. Here is a place which doesn’t go to sleep especially during the pay days.Įxperience- The Oldest Township in South Africa. It is also a place where great entrepreneurial spirit thrives, with art and culture among the most notable characteristics of the townships. Despite all this, townships in South Africa are known to be very vibrant, steeped in history with a strong sense of togetherness and a great sense of belonging, community and cohesion. Townships have large informal settlements sprouting up in unexpected areas. Townships where or are still referred to as locations or lokasies in Afrikaans and also called “Kasie” in slang, which is a short version of “lokasie”.

This is a typical itinerary for this product Stop At: In South Africa, the term township or location refer to the often underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas that, from the 19th century till 1994 – the era when apartheid came to an end, where reserved for non-whites, that is, Africans, Coloureds and Indians

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