Further down the road, this area — sewered, powered, solar cells on each roof — ends, and we’re in shack territory. Here poverty is more reliably poor, odd strips of lino making a floor, furniture as off-cuts. But even here there’s a ghetto-blaster and a stack of CDs or a rack of sharp shirts.
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Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: from a sea of slums, to brick built suburbs and the shadows in between
People advise those who are embarking on a South African trip not to visit Cape Town first, and they’re right. Once you’re here you have no desire to leave and the rest of the country is bound to be, well, another country.
World Cup: What legacy will FIFA leave for Jo’burg’s townships?
Fittingly for such a complex nation, South Africa is providing one of the most interesting World Cup host nation tales yet, off the pitch at least, writes Oliver Milman.
Hillary was no Bradman. Hillary was a great man
On the face of it Edmund Hillary is to New Zealand what Don Bradman is to Australia. But that is where the comparison should end, writes Greg Barns.
