South Africa: It Broke My 'Spirit' - Pensioner Devastated After City Housing Project Halted Due to Violence

After her husband successfully put their names down for a house with the City of Cape Town's housing department on April 10, 1990, Gladys Minords hoped that one day she would live in her own house. But that dream has been crushed after a housing project she was finally part of was halted.

Minords lives with her 63-year-old husband and adult son in the backyard of her deceased in-laws' house in Bishop Lavis. She is being evicted because the owner wants to sell the house, GroundUp reported.

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