Mandela Park

Mandela Park
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Coordinates: 34°02′56″S 18°41′10″E / 34.049°S 18.686°E / -34.049; 18.686
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Main Place	Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Area [1]
• Total	1.86 km2 (0.72 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	18,747
• Density	10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	98.67%
• Coloured	0.63%
• Indian/Asian	0.04%
• White	0.01%
• Other	0.64%
First languages (2011) [1]
• isiXhosa	89.73%
• English	3.38%
• Sesotho	1.66%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)

Mandela Park is a neighborhood in the Khayelitsha urban area of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was established in 1986 under the apartheid era government of P.W. Botha as a residential area for black South Africans moving to Cape Town from the Eastern Cape province. It was one of the few areas in South Africa in the 1980s where black South Africans could purchase homes with bank loans. Many of the streets in the neighbourhood are named after anti-apartheid activists.^[2] The Mandela Park Backyarders association is based in the community.