Kamini Padayachee

Mercury: Low-cost housing upsets residents

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Clearly shack dwellers don't count as 'residents' in this article...If they did, and were spoken to, the journalist would soon have discovered all kinds of worries on that side of the fence too....Like the fact that the building of the government shacks is still not complete months after the fire (unlike in Kennedy where people, with City help in getting building materials for the first time, rebuilt themselves in a week; like the fact that the government shacks are being allocated with shocking political bias resulting in long standing residents being left homeless while outsiders with the right connections get the government shacks....

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