South Africa: '2019 Is Coming, and You're Going to Lose', Angry Cape Town Backyarders Tell Minister

"2019 is coming, and you are going to lose!" an angry backyard dweller shouted at Human Settlements Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo during a meeting over housing shortages in Gugulethu on Friday.

Mfeketo was welcomed at the Cape Town suburb's sports centre by a loud picket of people who said they had been evicted on Tuesday from shacks they had built on unoccupied land. They said they were now fed up with being homeless and living in "cages".

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