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Families live with rubbish and rats in Joburg stadium

Hundreds of people have been stuck for years in “temporary” accommodation

Naboth Madoro is one of several hundred people who live in Wembley Stadium, a space demarcated by the City of Johannesburg as temporary housing for people who were evicted or lost their homes in fires. Photos: James Oatway

Hundreds of people are living in Temporary Emergency Accommodation in squalid conditions across Johannesburg.
About 350 people who were displaced by inner-city fires and evictions have been living in Wembley Stadium for years.
Due to a housing shortage, not one temporary facility has successfully moved residents to permanent homes.

Hundreds of people who lost their homes in evictions or fires in Johannesburg’s inner-city are living under tents and shacks in and around Wembley Stadium.
They were moved there years ago by the…

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