“Blikkiesdorp has a different kind of despair,” a journalist friend observed last week. Blikkiesdorp literally means tin village, ready to collapse at any moment; the hollowness of tin ringing through ...

The Temporary Relocation Area erected in 2007, has become a haven for crime, gangsterism and squalor. The smell of faeces from buckets that are makeshift toilets permeates the air for the 7 000 plus ...

A HANDFUL of former AWB stalwarts are living peacefully beside black neighbours in a notorious relocation camp for the homeless in Cape Town. Blikkiesdorp, with its trademark corrugated iron ...

A man with discoloured skin — dying alone in a shack of Aids — speaks volumes about conditions in Blikkiesdorp, described as a ”dumping ground” for unwanted people in Cape Town. Set up in the Cape ...

Families who fled Blikkiesdorp last week have sent a lawyer’s letter to the City of Cape Town to ask the authorities to find alternative accommodation for them, or else they will take the matter to ...