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Cape Town Image: Living in a Tin Shack – Cape Town, South Africa

11 December 2017 by Alan

A Cape Town Gugulethu tagged image from photographer – Urban Adventures as published on Flickr.

Living in a Tin Shack – Cape Town, South Africa
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Image by Urban Adventures

Xhosa families from the rural areas of the Eastern Cape starting their city life in corrugated tin shacks in the informal settlements. More commonly referred to as squatter camps. Some of these dwellings are surprisingly spacious, clean and craftily decorated both interior and exterior.

(By Dewyk Pretorius)

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