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Your stories are so eye opening. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent reporting.
Asiphe Ntshongontshi lives in a simple shack made out of tin and wood, along with thousands of other people carving out a tiny piece of a wetlands in Cape Town, South Africa. When it rains, the area turns to mud, and although the city has dug drainage canals into the bush, rubbish and foul water still occasionally seeps into people's homes. The worst homes are the ones closest to the reeds, as those are the wettest, and the furthest from the road. Nearby, only a few hundred meters away, an electric fence surrounds modern family homes in the gated community of The Lakes.
"Living in the wetlands to me is a drive. You know that every day I must wake up, go to work, go to college, go to the university in order my kids from the future not to live in the same environment that I lived."