The situation at Kathrada Park Informal Settlement in Claremont has worsened over the past year.
Reconstruction Development Programme (RDP) houses have only been finished built on the one side of the area while the other side close to the Newclare railway station is nowhere near finished.
The residents are living in shacks with no electricity and sufficient water supply for nearly six years.
Hired toilets are the same toilets that were used six years ago so the state of hygiene is not well.
Resident Sipho Madikwe has been living in Kathrada Park for five years with his wife and four children.
“We are living like pigs.
“We are more than 500 people who have been using the same toilets and it is unhygienic for all of us,” said Madikwe.
Housing department and the company in charge of construction are still laying foundation and working towards completion, but residents feel it is taking too long.
“We are trying our best to complete all of the houses but the people need to be patient,” said a representative from City Council.
