The four young men convicted of her murder were pardoned by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This includes rugby from Kensington, cricket from District Six, and ballroom dancing from Retreat.Īmerican graduate-student, Amy Biehl, was killed in an instance of mob violence in Gugulethu while on exchange from Stanford University with the University of the Western Cape's Community Law Centre on 25 August 1993.
Here African men were forced to share single rooms with up to three men, with no housing provided for their families.ĭespite harsh living conditions in Gugulethu, resident Jeff Mamputha reflects fondly on the diversity of cultures that the communities who were moved to Gugulethu brought with them. Migrant workers who came to Cape Town seeking work also often settled here in labour hostels. As Langa, Cape Town’s oldest township, become more and more crowded, some of its residents moved to Gugulethu. Once they arrived in Gugulethu, the settlement was divided up into sections that were designed so that people who had been removed from the same areas were grouped together. Families that were resettled came from Windemere (approximately 753 families), Wittebome, Bo-Kaap, Retreat, District Six, and Simon’s Town. Residents of Gugulethu included African families who were forcibly removed from many different parts of the City of Cape Town under the Group Areas Act. Despite the poor housing and living conditions in Gugulethu, the population had grown to over 27 000 residents by 1963. It was chosen by the apartheid government that incorrectly spelt it 'Guguletu'. The name "Gugulethu" is an abbreviation of "igugu lethu", which means "our pride" in Xhosa.
It was first established as a settlement for African migrant workers by the Cape Town City Council in 1958. Gugulethu, or "Gugs" as it is popularly known, is a township/suburb about 15 kilometres outside the city centre of Cape Town.
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