For an hour, newly appointed City of Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero was holed up in what is known as The White House - a tent in front of the Eldorado Park police station - while community members yelled over him. | IamAlexSweet
Scores of people were squeezed into the 5m x 6m enclosure in the midday heat. Temperatures reached 32 degrees Celsius.
For the last 29 days, The White House has been home to residents who are too afraid to sleep at home during a particularly brutal period of infighting between rival gangs in a drug turf war. "Mothers are having to go and identify their children by their hands and feet because their faces are blown away."Graffiti representing the 20 youths killed in the Eldorado Park gang violence in the last three-months, decorates the road outside the police station in the south of Johannesburg."Why have you discriminated against us? Why have you forsaken us - for 10 years we've been dealing with this.
James said the community was taking lessons from the Khoisan representatives who camped on the lawn of the Union Buildings in Pretoria for almost four years while they waited for the government to meet demands related to their heritage in the country.
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