The flats at the four-storey River Park complex, which consists of about 10 blocks built with modern face bricks, have communal toilets but no running water.
Frans Kgole only had a mattress, paraffin stove and bucket when he moved into one of the incomplete River Park flats in Alexandra, northern Johannesburg, three years ago.
Kgole, was one of hundreds of people from various informal settlements in Alexandra to occupy the abandoned River Park flats, which had been left incomplete and empty for years while locals lived in shacks. ..If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
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