![]() “We can't sleep at night because of the smell,” she says, speaking in Xhosa, a language peppered with clicks that echo the droplets beginning to drum on the corrugated metal roof. Panyaza shares this tiny cabin with her two daughters and four grandchildren, a family of seven with two beds between them. Outside her makeshift home in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha, on the eastern edge of Cape Town, barefoot children play on the banks of an open sewer, while cows roam next to an overflowing rubbish heap. “Water comes in through the ceiling and the electricity stops working.” “When it rains, the public toilets overflow into my living room,” she says. It is the second largest township in the Eastern Cape after Ibhayi near Port Elizabeth and seventeenth largest in South Africa after Vosloorus near Boksburg, Gauteng.Sitting on a salvaged sofa in the centre of her small tin shack, Nomfusi Panyaza looks increasingly worried, as heavy clouds gather in the sky outside. Mdantsane is a South African urban township situated 15 km away from East London and 37 km away from Qonce in the Eastern Cape. ![]() Is Mdantsane the biggest township in South Africa? With a population of over 2 million, the township is the biggest black urban settlement in Africa with a rich political history. Soweto is a sprawling township, or more accurately, a cluster of townships on the south-western flank of Johannesburg. Is Soweto the largest township in South Africa? ![]() These are the 20 biggest townships in the country (Stats SA, 2011) # Which is the biggest township in South Africa? ![]()
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