Joe Slovo Park

Joe Slovo Park is a township located between Milnerton and Montague Gardens near Cape Town, South Africa.

Joe Slovo Park is a small township which was designed to replace the shack settlement of Marconi Beam with an orderly working-class suburb.

[2] One section of Joe Slovo Park is known as Mshini Wam, named after the struggle song Umshini wami which was often sung by Jacob Zuma in the run up to his election as president.

It was founded in 2006 when it was erected in an open space ringed by formal RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme) houses.

Joe Slovo Park is near Canal Walk an upmarket shopping centre[6] among some of the areas found in Milnerton.

[7] Again in March 2014 residents of Joe Slovo Park started building an informal settlement on an open piece of land on Freedom Way in front of the Assemblies of God church and Sinenjongo high school.

A typical shack in Joe Slovo Park. Photographed 2013
a woman in her shack home washing clothes by hand in a plastic container. This is typical in Joe Slovo Park
There are many street dogs in Joe Slovo Park