http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4258593

Government and World Bank linked research institute reconsiders eradication....but their alternative is not clear...

Front Page
Second look at merits of shacks
February 17, 2008 Edition 1

There is a giant sign on Cape Town's N2 highway next to Langa which proudly reads: Towards the eradication of slums.

Angled to catch the passing gaze of rush-hour traffic, the sign serves two purposes. It reassures commuters that there are plans to clear the unsightly shacks that line the route from the airport to the city, and it emphasises the government's official attitude to informal housing. This is that slums and shacks need to be destroyed. They are bad, dirty, dangerous, unhealthy places and nobody should be made to live in them.