‘Where do we go?’: desperate plea after floods wash away informal settlement

Disaster hit Mamelodi before the municipality could relocate the residents as promised

08 February 2022 - 19:44

The only thought in Elizabeth Nkwana’s mind when flood waters flattened their Eerste Fabriek informal settlement was to get her three children, one of them disabled, to safety...

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