When even police and the ambulance won’t enter.
EThembeni borders an area with government housing, electricity, water and tarred roads. As you get closer to eThembeni, however, there is a clearing of land and tarred road comes to […]
EThembeni borders an area with government housing, electricity, water and tarred roads. As you get closer to eThembeni, however, there is a clearing of land and tarred road comes to […]
EThembeni does not have a formal sanitation system. Most residents have built makeshift pit toilets in their backyards, protected by corrugated iron and wood. The poor sanitation is a topic […]
Ma Novela Mthathi is 62 years old, and she has been living in eThembeni for 6 years. She sits resolute in her modest two-roomed home, a home of mud and […]
Without electricity, eThembeni is blanketed in darkness at night. Most residents felt uneasy in their homes as night settled (see Darkness as a curfew). Not having electricity restricted residents’ freedom […]
Matthews Nto has been living in eThembeni for 7 years. He works at a local nature reserve to support his family. At the back of his modest home is a […]
After heavy storms the mud walls of many of the homes in eThembeni need to be recoated and reinforced. Here, Ma Nombulelo Nkontsa fixes the walls of her home after […]
Luyanda Qhutywa holds up a placard questioning his freedom in eThembeni. 1994 was heralded as the beginning of change for South Africans, particularly its poor black majority. The life conditions […]