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Gugulethu is the name of a Cape Town suburb, cynically named by the apartheid government. Far from being an expression of pride and possession, it was a segregated area for black Africans only, and they had no choice at all. There are two other, similar suburbs adjacent to it, named respectively Langa (Sun) and Nyanga (Moon): a lot of people guessed that Gugulethu probably meant Stars, but it doesn't.