In transit?
The mayor last week described the conditions in the transit camp as inhumane - conditions that have existed for a number of years and are nothing new for the 750 residents who were moved there from informal settlements across the city.
IT comes as no surprise that the transit camp at Isipingo is set to be demolished and its occupants moved to another location. The mayor last week described the conditions in the transit camp as inhumane – conditions that have existed for a number of years and are nothing new for the 750 residents who were moved there from informal settlements across the city. The camp was established in 2009, and its location on a busy main road was an exercise in bad planning from the outset. While it meant the residents were close to transport routes, they live in squalor and the area floods during heavy rains. The inhabitants are economically challenged, and as such, can ill afford the ongoing impact of replacing items lost during or affected by such flooding. Now that the city plans to move them, it will be another upheaval. And who knows where to? The timing seems awfully convenient – a year away from elections and with plans being laid for the dug out port at Prospecton. One can only hope that the lives of so many people are not being used as a politically expedient means to an end.
