A tent town with beachfront views, but starving, unemployed residents are anything but happy

Funding cuts to NPOs blamed as DA conducts oversight visit to municipality-owned homeless shelter on Durban's North Beach

12 March 2024 - 21:35 By LWAZI HLANGU

They live on prime property literally metres away from the Indian Ocean and surrounded by hotels, but for hundreds of homeless residents housed in a tent shelter on Durban's North Beach, the conditions at the municipality-owned facility are anything but inviting...

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