An entire inner city block was cordoned off in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning as workers from the Red Ant security company hauled people's belongings out of the decrepit 12 storey Fattis Mansions on Harrison Street.
Hundreds of security guards, dressed in their signature red overalls and helmets, lined the intersections in front of the building, while others heaped beds, furniture and a wide variety of household items in the middle of the street as evicted tenants and owners looked on.
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