South Africa: 'Chocolate City', Where Houses Melt in the Rain

Hundreds have lived in mud homes for decades in Dambuza

Residents of Dambuza in Pietermaritzburg call their settlement Chocolate City because they live in mud houses. The hundreds of residents only have pit toilets and say they are running out of space to build new toilets when they are full. There are no communal taps in their yards and the roads are bad.

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