Gugulethu
Gugulethu is a township in Western Cape, South Africa and is around 20km from Cape Town. Its name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride / our hope. The area was the third township to be established in Cape Town, after Nyanga and Langa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fezeka Secondary school and Mzoli’s.
Fezeka Secondary school
School
Fezeka High School is a public high school located in Gugulethu, Western Cape, South Africa. It is one of the high schools in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality.
Mzoli’s
Pub
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Mzoli's was a butchery in Gugulethu, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Since Mzoli's opened in early 2003, the restaurant had become a popular gathering spot for Cape Town residents and a tourist attraction.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manenberg and Nyanga.
Manenberg
Suburb
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Manenberg is a neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa. It was created by the apartheid government in 1966 for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats as a result of the forced removal campaign by the National Party.
Nyanga
Suburb
Nyanga is a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. Its name in Xhosa means "moon" and it is one of the oldest black townships in Cape Town. In 1948, Athlone was declared a coloured-area, resulting in the forced removal of black residents, who were forced to settle in Nyanga near Langa.
Crossroads
Suburb
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crossroads is a high-density township in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is situated near Cape Town International Airport and borders Nyanga, Philippi, Heideveld, Gugulethu and Mitchells Plain. Crossroads is one of greater Cape Town's largest townships. Crossroads is situated 3 km southeast of Gugulethu.
Gugulethu
- Type: Suburb
- Description: township of Cape Town, South Africa
- Categories: South African township and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.98222° or 33° 58′ 56″ southLongitude
18.56833° or 18° 34′ 6″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA GLUOpen location code
4FRW2H99+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 262720460OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3367112Wikidata ID
Q1553423
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gugulethu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gugulethu”
- Catalan: “Gugulethu”
- Chinese: “古古勒苏”
- Chinese: “古古勒蘇”
- Dutch: “Gugulethu”
- French: “Gugulethu”
- German: “Gugulethu”
- German: “Guguletu”
- Japanese: “ググレツ”
- Japanese: “ググレトゥー”
- Pedi: “Gugulethu”
- Persian: “گوگولثو”
- South Azerbaijani: “قوقولثو”
- Spanish: “Gugulethu”
- Swati: “Gugulethu”
- Turkish: “Gugulethu”
- Xhosa: “Gugulethu”
- Zulu: “Gugulethu”
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