Despite all the problems related to the development of new townships - such as a lack of adequate facilities, long distances to travel to work and an increasing crime rate - experiment in low cost housing, Mitchell's Plain, continues to mushroom over the Cape Flats, reaching from the sea at Strandfontein towards The Strand and inland to the out [...] Designed to house more people than Kimberly, Bloemfontein, East London or Maritzburg, the Plain [...] This dramatic aerial photograph shows about one quarter of Mitchell's Plain, stretching out towards the Hottentots Holland mountains in the distance. Another 12 600 homes, which will cost more than R600 million, are planned to complete [...]
