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| The Uganda Transit Camp, Isipingo, Durban |
Just two
decades after the dawn of democracy, an old horror is revisiting the
new South Africa. Transit camps are back, and they are back with a
vengeance, writes JARED SACKS, Daily Maverick
Close to
midnight and you can still hear babies wailing, couples quarrelling
and house music blaring through the razor-thin zinc sheets that the
eThekwini Municipality calls “walls” in Uganda Transit Camp near
Isipingo, Durban. Getting a decent night’s sleep is a struggle in
and of itself. And yet, that’s only the beginning.
