Residents living in dilapidated hostels built by the apartheid government in Soweto have little hope of better conditions or access to land to build homes for their children.
The residents do not pay rent at the hostel and sometimes hire people to fix things such as blocked toilets‚ running water and electricity outages.
“Sometimes my children ask me why I chose to stay here and not where I can have my own kitchen and toilet. They do not know I had planned a better future for them‚” Dlamini said. “We had our shack there for two years. There were so many people that built in that area and we also decided to build a six-room house. Last year the Red Ants and some other people demolished it and now we have to continue staying here‚” Dlamini said as she fought back tears.
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