Collins Jonas moved to South Africa in 2017 with a plan to help support his family in Malawi. He was fortunate enough to find a job as a panel beater, but one evening he was robbed of everything he had on him, including his passport.
He tried asking for help from fellow Malawians in the city, but all doors were shut."They told me everyone came here alone, there's nothing we can do," he recalled. He told News24 there are common assumptions about the reasons people are on the street, with poverty and housing shortages being among them.
Jonas and Fredericks are among the estimated 5 000 homeless people in the greater Cape Town area. According to statistics released by the Western Cape government in May, 700 of those are living in the central business district.
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