In Durban, South Africa, “shackdwellers are taking their municipality to court. The government evicted poor residents from their homes … [in order to allow the construction of a road] … and threw them into transit camps, where they live ‘like a fish in a tin’, waiting for more permanent housing that never comes. [One of […]
In Cape Town this January, Ken Salo invited Jessica and I to presentations by summer abroad students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They were presenting their findings on urban inequalities in the city. A group of students presented on the struggles of a group of residents in Delft, a working class township, who […]
South African photographers, Moshe Sekete and Kabelo Mofokeng, capture the private security guards–given their name for the red overalls and helmets they wear–who have become notorious for how they evict poor residents in Johannesburg’s inner city from their homes.
