Erna Van Wyk

City Press: Living in a place with no name

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http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/Features/Living-in-a-place-with-no-name-20110319

Living in a place with no name

Erna Van Wyk

A R952-million state-of-the-art prison adorns the outskirts of the Northern Cape capital, Kimberley.

Complete with sports fields, art, educational, vocational and health facilities, the New Kimberley Correctional Centre is a real showpiece. Even its 8km sewer line is something to be a bit jealous of.

But just a few kilometres away, apartheid’s bucket toilets still line the corners of red Kalahari dust plots where corrugated iron shanties are neatly packed in a row.

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