An eyesore by any standards. In Gauteng, informal settlements are mushrooming at an alarming rate, fuelling more problems than solutions.
One of the problems being fire, which often spread to vast areas of human settlements, leaving the homeless with nothing except the clothes on their bodies.
Important documents are lost and, sometimes, the victims look to the government to help them start over, as they are left with nothing.
The government has been most understanding and sympathetic, but things might change.
A few weeks ago, I was surprised when a friend, who has worked and lived in Zimbabwe, told me there were no shacks in Zimbabwe. There are only houses.
And yet our country is littered with shacks everywhere, with immigrants coming from all corners of the world, having…
