South Africa: On Cape Town's Road to Nowhere

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Amelia Earnest met some of the people living on the streets of Cape Town. Some of them have been living outside since they were children. The City recently made it harder for them, though. By GROUNDUP.

Gregory and his wife had lived in the same home for twelve years. Returning from a quick outing one day, they found it was gone. Gregory, who describes himself as forty years homeless, had been living in a shelter underneath "the unfinished bridge." This is the elevated freeway that the City infamously abandoned in 1977, citing a lack of funding.

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