Baphumelele Children's Home was founded in 2001 as a refuge and place of safety for orphaned and other vulnerable children from the Cape Flats. The home is one of the first in the township of Khayelitsha, one of the largest in South Africa. The founder of Baphumelele, Rosie Mashale, is a trained primary school teacher.
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The Khayelitsha tavern shooting was a mass shooting which occurred on the morning of 8 March 2020, killing seven people and injuring a further seven people.
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Khayelitsha is a township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. The name is Xhosa for New Home. It is reputed to be one of the largest and fastest-growing townships in South Africa.
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Beacon Valley is a neighborhood in the central eastern part of the Mitchells Plain urban area of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, just north and north east of the town centre.
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Mandalay is a neighbourhood in the northeastern corner of the Mitchells Plain urban area of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
She has been selected as a Mama Afrika by Clover. She has also been selected as a finalist in the Cape Times V&A Waterfront Woman of Worth Awards.