As more people move to George, the city has an acute housing shortage.
“We were desperate for a place to stay because there wasn’t any land available in George,” says Vuyisa Sapepa. He is a leader of the eDamini informal settlement community in Thembalethu, George. A few thousand people live here, a major land occupation that started in 2017. Most used to live in backyard dwellings or were renting RDP houses. They came here to avoid having to pay rent they could not afford.
The land was transferred to George Municipality from the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements some five years ago. Mboxo survives by doing piece jobs or asking neighbours for food when he has not secured a job for a week. Resident Khayekethu Mboxo complained about the “unbearable” smell of faeces and urine from waste that people discard behind his shack.
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