Imizamo Yethu
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Imizamo Yethu is an informal settlement in the greater Hout Bay
Valley area.
The 18 hectare settlement houses approximately 33 600 people with little or no infrastructure for sustainable living.
The settlement has dismal water facilities; there have very few toilets and no sewerage system.
The Disa River which runs through this settlement has the highest level of e-coli bacteria that has ever been recorded in South Africa.
Hout Bay
Hout Bay is the name of a coastal suburb of Cape Town, South Africa with a mix of neighbourhoods from the very rich to the very poor. It lies in a valley on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Cape Peninsula and is twenty kilometres south of the Central Business District of Cape Town...
Valley area.
The 18 hectare settlement houses approximately 33 600 people with little or no infrastructure for sustainable living.
The settlement has dismal water facilities; there have very few toilets and no sewerage system.
The Disa River which runs through this settlement has the highest level of e-coli bacteria that has ever been recorded in South Africa.