'Slum of high poverty'

This was supposed to be one of Soweto’s leading townships.’

- Thando Nondywana

The ANC may have been marking the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown this week, but bitter residents of the township say they do not have freedom as they live in squalor.

Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown memorialises the signing of the charter in 1955. It also welcomed the signing of South Africa's Bill of Rights. But nearly six decades later, many of its residents are still waiting for promised developments.

Known as one of the oldest residential areas in Soweto, it consist of more than 10 informal settlements named after liberation stalwarts, including Chris Hani.

But for residents, these are mere names that hold a distant memory of what should have been a developed township.