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Lwandle (from a Zulu word meaning "ocean") is a township in
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, a town in the eastern part of the
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Metro in the
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province of
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. Administratively it is a suburb of the City of Cape Town. Under
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it was a group area for black people and is still predominantly populated by this community.


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Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum - is 40 kilometres (30 miles) outside the city of Cape Town, just off the N2, in the region known as the Helderberg Basin. Lwandle (the Xhosa word for ‘sea’) was once inhabited by hunter-gatherer groups who secu ...
{{Cape Town, communities Suburbs of Cape Town Townships in the Western Cape