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‘Dear Mandela’: The struggle of shack dwellers



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With apartheid’s end, many thought the deplorable living conditions of poor South Africans would automatically improve. Sixteen years later, for some it has deteriorated, and many called shack dwellers are still living in informal settlements called shacks. It is the all-too-familiar display of “African politics”, as the mass…