Today's Irish News has a story about poverty in South Africa on page 3. And they have a picture of a 'township' to show how poor people in South Africa live - and it's a shot of some of that relatively nice, new, RDP housing along the N2 around Nyanga and Crossroads. And you just think, no, those small but actually rather pretty red roofed houses aren't how most townships look ... this is how most townships look.
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Learning from Cape Town...
Today's Irish News has a story about poverty in South Africa on page 3. And they have a picture of a 'township' to show how poor people in South Africa live - and it's a shot of some of that relatively nice, new, RDP housing along the N2 around Nyanga and Crossroads. And you just think, no, those small but actually rather pretty red roofed houses aren't how most townships look ... this is how most townships look.
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