Martha Ranamane says that she hates that there is no fresh air in Alex. “There’s dumping next to the school, and there are toilets next to the church. That’s why we have rats here.”
, the 67-year-old says that all she wants is for Alex to be “nice” — maybe like Soweto, she says, where they have decent houses and tarred roads.
Ranamane and Khunou are just two of the many citizens of Alexandra who are frustrated at the state of things. Speaking to the community after the #TotalShutDown protests in early April, President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted some of the issues that residents in the area were facing, and said that he was “disturbed” by the high levels of filth. “Sewerage and human waste is all over the streets. We cannot allow that.
“There are houses being built on the pavements. There is barely space for us to walk”, she says. According to her, Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals are taking up the space. “I wouldn’t go to Zimbabwe and build a shack whoever I wanted to. Mugabe wouldn’t let me. So why must we allow it here?” Televised proceedings of the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture play in the background as Motloutsi tells theThe father-of-two, whose wife died in 2004, lives with his son, who is in matric at a school around the corner from their home. He relies on his 30-year-old daughter, who lives in Kempton Park, to support the two of them. “I want my child to be educated,” he says. “If he doesn’t go to school, he’s going to end up being a thief.
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