You Want Some'n in the HOOD!? KATANGA (HELENVALE) Drive (Must Watch) Port Elizabeth South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2023
- Katanga (Helenvale) Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) Eastern Cape South Africa.
The suburb was built 50 years ago in the apartheid days. It was designed to move the people under the group areas act from places like Korsten and Neave Township.
The houses were designed as semidetached units comprising four rooms with an outside toilet per family. The four rooms consisted of two bedrooms, one lounge and a kitchen.
Because so many people had to be moved, each unit was divided to cater for two families.
In other words a block that was supposed to accommodate only two families now had to accommodate four families with only two outside toilets.
The suburb (Old Helenvale) was initially built to accommodate about 6000 people, the latest survey showed that almost 32000 people are living in the 38 streets.
From 1960 onwards the area became renowned for gangsterism and fighting. It soon got the name of Katanga derived from the DRC where there was a climate of extremist fighting. It was almost as if the same killings and fighting in the DRC’s Katanga happened in the local Katanga.
The Problem
Helenvale is characterised by poverty, gangsterism and other socio-political complexities, found in varying degrees in other South African communities. A coloured township, Helenvale is located approximately 30 minutes’ drive from the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole (NMBM) city centre. It is also a historic site of displacement, with many of its residents having been forcibly removed from other areas in the NMBM. Developed to accommodate 6000 people, the area now provides tenancy for 20 000 - 69% of which are below the age of 35 - and is critically underdeveloped. Only 12% of the population have completed general education (grade 9 or higher) and 4% have no schooling at all;29.9% of households earn less than R800 a month (significantly less than the national average income of R8 800);46% of inhabitants claim to have no income; and 49% are unemployed (significantly more than the national average of 37%) (StatsSA 2011).
Not much has changed since the onset of democracy, and Helenvale has remained socioeconomically marginalised. As a coloured area in a metro dominated by black-majority areas, In Helenvale residents mainly elect councillors not from the ruling party, consequently antagonising the metro and neighbouring communities. Aside from the historical displacement and the fierce socio-economic constraints gripping the area, media representation/ reportage on Helenvale reinforces and reproduces the existing high degree of political antagonism. Further, in 2013 the rate of crime was six times the national rate, and the township remains the poorest within the NMBM. Through the regional and tabloid press of Die Burger and Die Son, the area receives a great deal of attention with coverage on shootings, gang activities and public protests. As a result, representations of Helenvale in the mainstream news paint a very bleak picture.
REFERENCES/ MEDIA REPORTS
Helenvale/Katanga gangwatch - Facebook; built 50 years ago, …from 1960s known for gangsterism and fighting, hence the name Katanga, derived from DRC, where there was a climate of extreme fighting
wikimapia.org/6623178/Katanga-... Katanga (Helenvale) (Port Elizabeth), named after Katanga in DRC
www.heraldlive.co.za: ..a community gripped with such intense fear that they forsake their beds and opt for the hard floor because bullets flying through the walls of their homes are a norm…. One child shot twice while sleeping in her bed….We are prisoners in our own homes; “Bullets are flying all the time.”
www.heraldlive.co.za: gang storms school in Helenvale (15 April, 2015)
www.heraldlive.co.za: Helenvale residents tell of daily hell …families in Leith Street have been sleeping on their floors since gang violence ... (21 December 2015)….
www.sabc.co.za/news: Helenvale and Gelvandale reknown for their high levels of violent crime since the 1960s (13 June 2015); There are currently 17 different gangs operating in the northern areas of which 8 have ties in operations in Helenvale..
www.iol.co.za: “Rambo of Port Elizabeth gunned down”
mype.co.za: 2 killed in Helenvale, …. brings the number of people shot dead in Helenvale this week to 3
www.thenewage.co.za: Mayor Jordaan Promises to tackle crime… in Helenvale (20 January 2016); ewn.co.za: Jordaan emotional at community meeting in crime-laden Helenvale (11 May 2016)
Wow.. 25 yrs ago did community service here and other underprivileged areas in the Baai Northern areas has a bad reputation but the majority of aunties en oompies and people there has very good hearts and are welcoming as when providing healthcare. A few bad apples makes the whole Northerns unpleasant…stretching way back to beyond Booysen Park now.. May God guide all the youth in SA, as the conditions around them influence them negatively.. Nobody was born with bad intentions…🇿🇦🇿🇦💕
Wow, ok, I totally agree with you on all you have written about the northern areas, all we hope for is that all changes for good for all in these areas and beyond.... 🙏🙏🙏
Grew up there and saw alot of things. Was there a few weeks ago. It's not as bad as people makes it out. When you drive in coming from Standford rd, the place on your right is what we call the "Gaat" or hole. Can't remember the street coming from Stanford but the road where you really getting into is Fitchard str. Grew up in that street.
thats why you plying tupac track life is a struggle here
My drive through that hood took me back to the 90s especially that Era of Tupac. Totally agree with you, life is a struggle!!! But let's keep our heads high one day we might sing a different song, bless🙏🙏🙏
Wow
This is no suburbs. Its the northern areas. A suburb is an upmarket area. Also when showcasing the northern areas you do it with a early B track not what u got
@@seanleslie7401 noted thank you!
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hole of PE there is no pla
IN the hole of P E there is no plasteres shame
I am from P E but its the filthiest place now 😢
No it's not. Clearly u havent been into the townships. Maybe never been to Katanga to visit anyone either. Just heard about it. And now seeing this video. If u never been there then u not actually from PE u just live here
@@seanleslie7401 No you have it wrong i was born there i walked every township every street as a young boy starting from Southend to Uth
Look don't get me wrong i loved that place my first job my first love school it was fun going from the dene to schordervile westend to the baths it was and is priceless and i am coming there for H day