Cape Town's newest neighbourhood is a patch of land by the N2 dubbed '19'

Backyarders from the Barcelona informal settlement in Nyanga, Cape Town, invade land next to the N2 on Thursday.A new “suburb” named 19 went up near Barcelona on Thursday. This is not the home of the FC Barcelona in Spain, however. Barcelona is an informal settlement near Cape Town International Airport, in Nyanga.It is part of a series of land grabs that spread across Cape Town this week.

“We have been on the housing waiting list since the 90s. Our children were born here and we now have grandchildren. I had nowhere else to go, so I came out and set up a home here.Senzo Masiza pointed our four boulders arranged in a rectangle and said: “This is my new home.”“We have realised that development is far from us because the government has no intention of bettering our lives. So we decided to come out here and build our homes and future,” he said.

“No-one takes us seriously. Only the rich get to have their say and have their needs taken care of by the authorities.

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