Andiswa Kolanisi looks out over the corrugated iron roofs, the shelters of salvaged plyboard, the washing fluttering in the raw wind, and smiles as she remembers a day 25 years ago. “The memories of that time are there but it is like we are telling a fairy tale now,” she says. “When we think about the difference between now and then, we ask: what happened?”
Kolanisi lives in the Cape Flats, a flat and dusty swath of land behind the stunning Table Mountain. Around her, neighbours in the squatter camp on the ragged fringe of a township called Khayelitsha listen carefully. Kolanisi supports four children and her unemployed husband by selling “fat cakes”, deep-fried bread rolls, at a nearby crossroads. Here there are no roads, no formal electricity or water supply, and those living in the few hundred shacks use half a dozen overflowing portable toilets supplied by the local authority. They all face eviction at a moment’s notice.
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