For some, the period is like school holidays, but without a safe place to play or go, and many face hunger each day
Cape Town – The large number of children roaming the streets in our townships and on the Cape Flats paints a worrying picture.
Life in places such as Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Mitchells Plain and Manenberg continues the way it was before the announcement of the lockdown. There are still groups of kids playing soccer along the N2, from Khayelitsha to Nyanga near Borcherds Quarry. In Hanover Park, most children have nowhere else to play besides the space in front of the flats, where gang violence usually breaks out.
Children of Taiwan informal settlement in Site C, Khayelitsha, play on a field next to shared outdoor toilets as the congested area presents little choice for playing spaces. "Myself and my wife, Shireen Nicholson, had kids coming to train every day so we had to feed them a meal after training so that they don’t go home with empty tummies.
Some of the local soccer coaches who spend most of their time with these children have spoken of the disappointment the young ones have expressed after team activities were cancelled.
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