Mthandeni’s mansion in Booysens informal settlement
Booysens squatter camp’s first double-storey.
MTHANDENI Mkhize feels like royalty living his life in a double-storey shack in Booysens informal settlement.
He first started by building a one-room shack but with limited space he opted to extend upwards. The double-storey is now a four-roomed house.
Mthandeni lives in one room in the double-storey while renting out the other three rooms.
Residents love taking pictures of the house and everyone in the community knows Mthandeni’s double-storey.
The double-storey is made up of boxes, wood, aluminium doors and chains. Every day when he wakes-up he stands on the balcony to take in the view of the settlement.
He even installed CCTV in every room of the house and claims that no one helped him in building his dream double-storey. He believes that he has inspired a lot of residents to also build their dream house in the squatter camp.
“When one builds a house obviously you have to spend a lot of money. I don’t even think of reducing the size of my double-storey. Residents love viewing my house and it makes me feel good, and that makes me think of building a treble-storey house in the coming years,” Mthandeni told COURIER.
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