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Rental mafia’s iron grip on Tshwane homeless shelter

24 June 2019 - 07:00 By Graeme Hosken
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Thabo Ndala, 21, pushes his trolley past the bus stop near University of South Africa (Unisa) campus, where another body of a homeless man was discovered with stab wounds on June 19 in Pretoria.
Thabo Ndala, 21, pushes his trolley past the bus stop near University of South Africa (Unisa) campus, where another body of a homeless man was discovered with stab wounds on June 19 in Pretoria.
Image: Gallo/Netwerk24/Felix Dlangamandla

Designed to house 300 homeless people, the City of Tshwane’s only municipal-owned homeless shelter is reigned over by an alleged rental mafia.

Armed guards, who report to the “mysterious” chairman of Struben No. 2, are reported to be enforcers who collect R150 rent every night from queues of people lining up for a small space to sleep.

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