Covid-19 Roundup | Grants and evictions
Battling to access grants and funding, high TB and HIV infections, illegal evictions and a shortage of protective equipment are among the daily struggles now facing the impoverished.
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Neglected, Alex resembles its old name of Dark City
Being situated next to Sandton, Africa’s richest patch, has not helped Alexandra township to develop. It remains a place of protest, illegal evictions and demolitions, and broken government promises.
Alex has always been a place of contention beyond politics
Protests by #AlexShutdown are the latest in the long history of challenging black exclusion in Alexandra, which from very early in its existence became a place of black resistance.