“Sometimes my children ask me why I chose to stay here and not where I can have my own kitchen and toilet. They do not know I had planned a better future for them.”
06 February 2023 - 10:00Lehlohonolo Dlamini lives with her family of seven in a small dormitory room in Nancefield Hostel in Soweto.Residents living in dilapidated hostels built by the apartheid government in Soweto have little hope of better conditions or access to land to build homes for their children.
The residents do not rent at the hostel and sometimes hire people to fix things such as blocked toilets, running water and electricity outages.Dlamini said the leaders of the hostel mostly assisted with this but the problem sometimes took days to address.The residents reported that it had been running for two days and would likely be fixed on Monday, five days since it started.
“We had our shack there for two years. There were so many people that built in that area and we also decided to build a six-room house. Last year the red ants and some other people demolished it and now we have to continue staying here,” Dlamini said as she fought back tears.Ziphozonke Lushaba
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