‘We don’t want politics, we want toilets and water’: Cape rail corridor shack dwellers tell ministers

There are about 1,200 families living on Prasa land in Langa and close to 900 shacks in Phillipi

11 September 2023 - 21:06

Vocal shack dwellers living along the railway lines on Cape Town’s busy transport routes told the national ministers of human settlements, transport and public works engaging them about resettlement they were not interested in “political affiliations”...

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