South Africa

Mashaba’s inner-city Joburg revamp ‘is anti-poor’

A mere kilometre from where outgoing Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba’s bold plan to revive the crumbling  inner city is set to unfold, families languish in a tent camp, having fled a fire at a hijacked building.

Herman Mashaba has criticised Fikile Mbalula for saying at the weekend that railway agency Prasa was not ready to resume its operations and would need another month. File photo
Herman Mashaba has criticised Fikile Mbalula for saying at the weekend that railway agency Prasa was not ready to resume its operations and would need another month. File photo (Simphiwe Nkwali)

A mere kilometre from where outgoing Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba’s bold plan to revive the crumbling  inner city is set to unfold, families languish in a tent camp, having fled a fire at a hijacked building.

They, along with families living in the buildings set for redevelopment, fear that grand plan will leave them out in the cold.

 

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