The Struben Street shelter for the homeless in Tshwane offers refuge to about 500 people. But the place is filthy and neglected, and occupants worry about their safety due to a lack of security and drug use on the premises.
The Struben Street shelter in Marabastad offers refuge to about 500 homeless people, including children and babies. It was started in 2004.
“These toilets get full very quickly and are not cleaned regularly,” said Ida Moyo, who lives at the shelter with her two-year-old baby girl. She came to the shelter in 2020 from Brits, North West, with her partner. In July last year, he disappeared.Katlego Mothamedi, who has been at the shelter since July 2022, came from Mabopane, north of Pretoria, to look for a job. He stays in a small makeshift hut made of black plastic bags that he has erected on the premises.
Meals are prepared off site. The organisation provides a breakfast of bread with butter and peanut butter or jam, coffee and tea with milk, and instant pap. The lunch menu varies, but includes pap with meat, rice with wors stew, as well as pap with cabbage mixed with meaty beef bones. For supper, Simango said they provide cheese and polony sandwiches.
Spokesperson for the City of Tshwane Selby Bokaba acknowledged that drug use was a problem at the shelter. He said metro police did conduct raids on the premises.
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