I'm afraid I will give birth on the streets, says evicted woman

The housing crisis in Alexandra continues to deepen as hundreds of illegal occupants of the Marlboro container units stood by and watched as their belongings were being thrown out.

- Thando Nondywana

A heavy police presence escorted residents who had been squatting in the area and had self-allocated the units among the community.

One of the evicted dwellers, Happy Mnisi, who is eight months pregnant and had occupied the vacant units for over a year, said she was shocked that officials had no sympathy for her situation.

"I am not okay. I am afraid that I will give birth on the streets because I have nowhere else to go," she said.

"They evicted us without providing alternative accommodation. Every time they evict us, we end up living on the streets.