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Katlehong was established in 1945 and has become a high density area in the Gauteng with 6 informal settlements in the southern part of Katlehong. There is serious overcrowding. For example in each tiny yard, shacks are set up for rent. One toilet often serves five to six families. Despite being surrounded by an industrial area, there is high level of unemployment. Katlehong is one of the most poorly served areas in Gauteng in terms of community development. Together with Thokoza it forms the second biggest black township after Soweto. Johannesburg, including Soweto, from the International Space Station Soweto is an urban area in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province South Africa. ...
Katlehong is a township located 35 Km east of Johannesburg and south of Germiston between two other townships of Thokoza and Vosloorus next to the N3 highway in the Ekhuruleni metropolitan of Gauteng Province of South Africa.
Katlehong was established in 1945 and has become a high density area in the Gauteng with 6 informal settlements in the southern part of Katlehong.
Katlehong is one of the most poorly served areas in Gauteng in terms of community development.
That done, the next step was to identify community leadership from Katlehong's then population of 500 000 people, of which at least 25 per cent were living in informal housing.
Katlehong community Trustees are made of a school inspectors, a bank manager, the Principal of a nursing college, a prominent business woman, a lawyer, the deputy director of a major busary funding organisation, a local priest and a senior social worker.
The Katlehong Resource Centre is particularly distinct because there are very few other examples of similar projects in the Gauteng area where local community leaders, who provide credibility experience, have come together to form a Board of Trustees.