It is situated next to the Cape Town International Airport, Belhar, Blue Downs, Ikwezi Park, Mandalay, Luzuko, Phillipi East, and Site C, Khayelitsha.

It was established to be one of Cape Town's first mixed race township including coloured and black residents.

Voorbrug, The Hague, Roosendal and Eindhoven are predominantly populated by Afrikaans-speaking coloured people.

The shackdwellers of Joe Slovo Informal Settlement in Cape Town have publicly refused to be forcibly removed to Delft.

DA Councillor Frank Martin who was accused of inciting thousands of poor people to occupy these houses.

[9][10] Eventually, the families who occupied the houses were violently evicted by police who used rubber bullets to put down the protest.