Imizamo Yethu

Imizamo Yethu
—  Informal settlement  —
Imizamo Yethu Location in the Cape Town metropolitan area
Imizamo Yethu
Coordinates: 34°1′S 18°21′E
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Area
• Total	0.23 km2 (0.09 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	8,063
• Density	35,057/km2 (90,800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2001)
• Black African	95.4%
• Coloured	4.6%
First languages (2001)
• Xhosa	83.1%
• Afrikaans	6.4%
• Zulu	4.0%
• Other	6.5%
Time zone	SAST (UTC+2)
Postal code	7806

Imizamo Yethu (People have Gathered in Xhosa, also known as Mandela Park), is an informal settlement in the greater Hout Bay Valley area. The 18 hectare settlement houses approximately 33 600 people^{[citation needed]} with little or no infrastructure for sustainable living. The settlement has dismal water facilities; there have very few toilets and no sewerage system.^{[citation needed]} The Disa River which runs through this settlement has the highest level of e-coli bacteria that has ever been recorded in South Africa.^{[citation needed]}