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Khayelitsha - a mini-audit
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A BRIEF AUDIT OF KHAYELITSHA
The staging of a Sunday Spends event is a means of auditing the resources available in an area.

Khayelitsha is a city of some one million people, according to informal reports. Whether or not that's accurate, even if its a couple hundred thousand, Khayelitsha constitutes a city.

On the one hand it is a city with excellent resources. There are courts, many schools, some ten multi-purpose centres including the Oliver Thambo Hall. There are many gas stations, and excellent train, taxi and bus infrastructure.

Conversely, it is a city radically lacking in services, and thus wide open with opportunity. There is one public recreation space, a swimming pool, situated next to the court house. There are three libraries. Three internet cafes, each of them charging R10 per hour when in Cape Town central its available for R5 per hour. The handful of restaurants, such as Kefu's and Vicki's B&B, are aimed at tourists. No art galleries, no parks. No PC sales shop. 

There is no adequate, formal, guest accommodation for more than 20 visitors.

There is excellent daytime transport, with three train stations and numerous taxi and bus routes.

There is an abundance of skilled human capital, from storytellers and tour guides to musicians and computer technicians. However there is no infrastructure to connect to and no resources to access, and therefore no means to grow the business.

Arts and Culture Resources
There is an abundance of performance talent in Khayelitsha. We received numerous phonecalls in response to our marketing campaign, Khayelitsha artists asking for space to perform. What we saw is that in Khayelitsha there is a rich pool of talent, but no spaces for their exposure.

The following performers featured on the September 11 open-mic session, as a result of the demand we received:

Divine, Herb, Mathematics, Master P, Sister Light, Sister Mush, Gamcwa, Nthutu, Mazwalgandile.

These were performers who came to our attention during the course of the event, not before.