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Streets vs shelters: Officials race to get terrified homeless people housed

“I am deaf. I don’t understand what is happening. Please can someone help me.”

Homeless men stand outside the Caledonian Stadium in Pretoria, where hundreds of homeless people were moved in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 on March 31 2020.
Homeless men stand outside the Caledonian Stadium in Pretoria, where hundreds of homeless people were moved in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 on March 31 2020. (Sebabatso Mosamo/Sunday Times)

“I am deaf. I don’t understand what is happening. Please can someone help me.”

This plea is from one of the 10,000 homeless people rounded up in a bid to stop Covid-19 infecting Tshwane’s most vulnerable citizens.

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