Freedom Park, North West
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Freedom Park is an informal housing settlement situated near the town of Rustenburg in North West Province,
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. It was established in the 1980s when
poor Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little
income< ...
people from other parts of South Africa were attracted by the possibility of employment at the nearby
Impala Platinum Impala Platinum Holdings Limited or Implats is a South African holding company that owns several companies which operate mines that produce platinum and platinum group metals, as well as nickel, copper and cobalt. Its most significant mine is the ...
mine. Today the settlement has a population of approximately 25,000 people. There is little public infrastructure at Freedom Park and residents lack adequate access to
sanitation Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation, as is hand washing with soap. Sanitation systems ...
,
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, and portable water.IRIN 2008
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Populated places in the Rustenburg Local Municipality Shanty towns in South Africa Rustenburg {{NorthWestZA-geo-stub