Kliptown housing and poverty - behind Walter Sisulu Square, crumbling houses and crowded informal settlements serve as home for a majority of residents.
The little that remained of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (Prasa’s) infrastructure in many train stations in Gauteng is rapidly vanishing.
After looting just about all the infrastructure, thieves are now stealing the overhead bridge steel rails and bricks.
Two men walk past the deserted Kliptown Train Station in Johannesburg on Wednesday. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)
But it’s not just everyday criminals who are helping themselves to the remains.
When
Daily Maverick visited the Kliptown station, a number of women were knocking bricks off the walls using chunks of rock. Some said they used the bricks to build themselves houses because the government had failed to do so. Others said they used the bricks to support their shacks.