![]() We visited the shops in the township, and went to the school and library. The main road at the entrance of Khayelethu Township Hair salon inside a container. Many of the residents of Khayelethu Township in Knysna work in the restaurants or hotels/bed-and-breakfast at Knysna town but they would have to commute daily from their township to the town area for work. Designated towns and cities are set aside as white residential areas while the rest of the population would stay in townships or the fringes of white areas. With the apartheid philosophy in South Africa, races are separated. In fact, the township tour told us an encouraging story of how a community move towards greater improvements in life. This is not a story of poverty in Africa. We could admire the sights and the scenes and enjoy copious amount of good food and wine, but that wouldn’t allow us to have a glimpse of the lives of a bulk of the population in the country. When in Knysna, we found that we had too much time on hand and decided to pop into the Tourism Office and found ourselves a guide for a township tour there.īoy, I was glad we didn’t miss out visiting a township while in South Africa. We should have visited a township in Cape Town but due to the lack of time, we skipped it. ![]()
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