Aljazeera
South Africa: The poor of Blinkbonnie Road
Durban, South Africa – Eighteen-year-old Mlungisi Mokoena should be in school, but here he is, on a weekday, guarding his one-room wooden shack roofed with steel sheets.
He belongs to one of 50 families living in a green belt of forest on the corner of Wiggins and Blinkbonnie outside the eastern port city of Durban.
“I don’t have school uniform,” Mokoena says, looking a little sheepish.
Mokoena says that in August, police and the city’s land invasion unit entered the settlement with axes and shotguns. They demolished homes, burned belongings and fired rubber bullets at resistors. Continue reading