In Johannesburg, about 2,000 vulnerable people are being housed in shelters and relocated to temporary accommodation.
The national lockdown has authorities scrambling to get the homeless off the streets.
Ndamase explained: “Amongst that population of 2 000, currently, in our centres, that assumption and estimation is that about 70 percent of them are substance abusers.”Some people who are homeless shared their challenges.
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