South Africa: 'My RDP House Has Robbed Me of My Legs'

"I curse the day I received it from government," Nomvula Frans says of her RDP house in Khayamnandi in Despatch, Eastern Cape.

"This house was built in 1997 and I started to experience problems every time it rains. It is situated on lower level and all the water from the houses on the upper level come straight into my house. It gets flooded and most of my furniture was damaged," she said.

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