- In 2009 more than 600 families were moved to Kwadabeka, north-west of Durban, in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
- They acquire been there ever since.
- They live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions with more than 600 households sharing two toilets and two showers.
- They maintain staged protests but say to date they believe been ignored.
Last week residents of Kwadabeka, north-west of Durban, blocked Dumisani Makhaye highway in the early hours of Friday, demanding to speak to Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda.
They said they gain been waiting two weeks for the eThekwini Municipality to report back to them after their previous protest about their housing situation in October.
In 2009, more than 600 families were moved nine kilometres to a transit camp to produce way for a training ground for international clubs near Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium in Clermont in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
They were told the creep would only be for six months.
“My daughter was seven years aged when we arrived here. Now she is 21,” says Menzi Dlamini, whose original mud house was demolished in 2009.
“There is absolutely no privacy,” says Dlamini.
Resident Mblai Ngcobo said in every the 13 years they’ve lived there, none of the various mayors had addressed them. “It seems as if the government has forgotten about us,” said Ngcobo.
Most of the homes gain broken windows. People maintain used sandbags to prevent flooding and erosion under their structures.
There are 609 households sharing two urinals, two flush toilets (the others are broken) and two showers set up in a shipping container. Most people wash themselves in their homes.
Thembani Zungu, who is in charge of cleaning the toilets, says for years she has been reporting to the municipality that most of the toilets are broken.
Thendeka Khumalo says she was four when she arrived and she is now 18 and in grade 12. She says there is no library in the vicinity where she can study in peace. She shares a room with seven people.
The families complain they maintain been forbidden from extending their structures although they gain been living there for more than a decade and their families are growing.
eThekwini Municipality spokesperson Gugu Sisilana said the residents will be relocated once a proposed development, still in the planning stages, is completed.
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A professor in South Africa is teaching her students how to form Emglish sentences.
“Attention class I have two words: Cheetah, and dandelion. Can anybody use these together in a sentence?”
One student raises their hand,
“The cheetah is faster dandelion.”
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Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”