“…This is illustrated by the Cape Town context, where much academic literature is available on the informal settlements in Hout Bay and their relocation site within that same suburb (see Sowman and Gawith, 1994;Nathan and Spindler, 1993;Lohnert, 1998;Oelofse and Dodson, 1997, among others), and the Marconi Beam informal settlement in Milnerton (see Lohnert, 1997Lohnert, , 1998Saff, 1996Saff, , 1999Yose, 1999). Little in turn has been asked about those settlements embedded in, or on the verges of, the African townships of Nyanga, Guguletu, Langa and Khayelitsha.…”