“I’ve been living here for three years.”
Clement Nocanda, left, and Thabang Mokoena gather possessions as they prepare to leave their home, the M2 bridge, to go and"hustle".Fewer accidents and less noise are some of the “benefits” that homeless people living under the refurbished M2 motorway in Johannesburg have noticed - a year after the motorway was closed for repairs.TimesLIVE visited one of the bridges on Tuesday, a year after writing about people living under the then unstable structures.
“I’ve been living here for three years. I come from Free State. To be honest with you, I came here because of my unruly behaviour and drug addiction,” Mokoena said, as he prepared to inject himself with a mixture of powder and liquid.“There used to be a lot of accidents around here. It was mostly trucks that caused them.
Koos Majola, a car guard at Carlton Centre, has lived under the bridge since 2007. He makes about R300 a day, enough to buy food, clothes and other “necessities”. He is from Orange Farm. Clement Nocanda, from Queenstown, has spent seven years under the bridge. For him, life has not changed since the revamp.Sunday Times/Alaister Russell
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