Informal Settlements Maps

Data, CommunityMedia & Government

Jan 2017Adi Eyal

Photo Credit: Tom Stoddart

@soapsudtycoon@code4sa

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Photo Credit: Darryn van der Walt

Khayelitsha

30kms from Cape Town CBD

Photo Credit: Social Justice Coalition

Khayelitsha

30kms from Cape Town CBDSource: Google Maps

Partners not adversaries

146,000 households in 437 informal settlement pockets in Cape Town. Many were established before

democracy but are still not recognised as permanent and their residents lack occupation rights and security of

tenure.

Original scanned in PDF from the City(why oh why?)

Image credit: Christian Schnettelker (www.manoftaste.de)

Digitised and liberated dataset(get it while it’s hot)

https://data.code4sa.org/dataset/Informal-Settlement-Matrix/bky6-3za5

Photo credit: Social Justice Coalition

Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q2bH71IFNM

The people behind the numbers

Photo credit: Johnny Miller | Unequal Scenes

https://www.millefoto.com/unequalscenes/

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Photo credit: Social Justice Coalition

Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gz05AQfPiU

The people behind the numbers

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Photo credit: http://mshengutoilethire.co.za/

Mshengu Toilet

Media Response

Citizen engagement

Asithandile is one of 3 000 residents of informal settlements

to participate in and make a submission to the City of Cape

Town’s 2016/2017 draft budget for better sanitation service delivery

Government response &Project Impact

All stakeholders need to come to the party in order to realise real

change

Special thanks to Julia Renouprez for a Herculean effort scanning, digitising and geocoding

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