OPINIONISTA: Poverty is not a natural state of being, yet we have accepted that this is shack dwellers’ fate

– all of which are themselves not formal words in the languages, but improvisations to describe the structures that have now become home to millions of South Africans., released in 1994, Nelson Mandela made an observation about the experience of poverty between black people and white people when he said: “In South Africa, to be poor and black was normal, to be poor and white was a tragedy.

For example, if you go to the Franschhoek winelands you will find the informal settlement of Langrug; in Centurion you will find the informal settlement of Spruit; and just outside Durban’s CBD you will find the informal settlement of eNkanini, all of which are black communities. At the best of times informal settlements are unsafe because of the precarious nature of the makeshift structures, which are built too close together, with electrical wires that are often not safely encased and installed, and rickety pit toilets that are shared by the community, and the floods have only made things worse.

However, seeing people go about their day-to-day lives with the acceptance that this was what life had dealt them and that they just had to make do made me not only think harder about our own acceptance as a society of the abnormal conditions that poor people live in, but also the dual realities that people navigate.

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