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Mayweni JonesBBC News in Johannesburg
Through blacks, the evil remains of the USindiso building in South Africa in Central Johannesburg, they want to reflect on Unintended 76 people for 76 people who were killed in a destructive fire.
At one time the office block was abandoned in the 1950s building in the Marshalltown area and then hundreds of people needed home.
One of them was Vusi Tshaballa, which shakes his head in disbelief when he reminded him how he lived in late August.
“The fire seemed to get out of nowhere,” the 45-year-old says BBC in a melancholy voice, from the years that burn smoking cigarettes.
TshaTalla was asleep on the third floor of the five-story building, where he was sharing a place for his girlfriend and brother.
The flames woke up, they managed to escape, covered in wet sheets and running in the dark to the back.
“We were injured by others, because they fell, because they could not back up. The people were above them. I thanked God without any injured.”
Tragedy surprised the nation and highlighted the deep differences in the richest housing in Africa.
Visiting the hours after the blaze, President Cyril Ramaphosa “made a call to start dealing with the state of housing in the inner city.”
“We need to find effective ways to address the home of the home,” he said.
But two years, Mr. Tshabalala and many others have not yet found sustainable housing.
Initially, Rosettenville, located in the south of Marshalltown in the south of Marshalltown, but he left him because he could not work around him.
Then the Denver’s industrial neighborhood tried to east 6 km from the fragrant building, where others survived, but it is often said to do the shooting frequently.
At the moment he lives in the shadow of his former house, where other common residents in the Usindiso building have placed huts in an informal settlement known as Emaxhosis.
Made of corrugated iron and wood, the structures are well packed together – and several foot, some have created a tent established by the tent against the wall of the usindiso building.
The street is dirty and the neighbors tell us that drainage is poor. The summer rain area is flooded and full of debris.
At Tshabalala, living here, is worth living here.
He has accused the authorities for not enough to help fire survival: “No one wants to know where the people of this tragedy live.”
Some survivors have been in a camp created by Denver. However, this does not mean that they are happy.
“This place is not safe”, 29-year-old Thobeka Biyela tells BBC.
Children play temporary iron among the spoiled shelters, where women also visit the laundry. Here are only a dozen common 800 people living and 12 taps.
Mrs. Biyela who works as a volunteer policeman explains how he did it for the first time while he was asleep.
“I heard Gunshots. Then I struck a bullet. I don’t know who fired me but some guys were fighting outside,” he said he holds the tears.
The bullet passed through the wall and hit hit his hip still. Trying to remove doctors would cause more damage.
Hide bullet holes left on the wall with the ribbon mask.
Mrs. Biyel is disappointed to leave the camp, but cannot afford a private income because his volunteer pays very little.
The authorities wanted to relocate the camp that the camp was just a temporary solution, but two years has no idea and when it will leave.
“The government will replace us in six months, I may not blame us. But I blame him because they are two years.
“When there is cold, I can’t go to work because my wound hurts. I have to buy pain every day. I could hurt my legs, I can’t stay or walk.”
Due to security issues, he has sent three-year-old daughter, who was coming with the night of the fire, with his grandmother to live in the province of Kwazulu-Natal.
“I’m very frightened. They ordered us to put the doors at the entrance to the camp but there is no door. Someone can walk here.”
Camp population say three people have died since the arrival of Denver: one blow, another to death and the third shot.
BBC contacted the city’s Mayor’s Office of the city to ask why they were not relocated for two years, but did not answer this question.
Nomzamo Zondo, the executive director of the Lawyer and the South African Socio-Economic Institute of Human Rights based on Johannesburg, says that people have struggled to take people to take people from temporary emergencies.
He explains the policy of the National Housing, except for the victims or victims of a disaster, unable to store themselves.
“Overall, that doesn’t happen. Without a cheap accommodation that people can plan, without a plan for State, people will leave temporary housing,” BBC tells BBC.
It seems that permanent homes seem to have many abandoned buildings in the center of Johannesburg, but the developers interested in reviewing, many charges for many rents available.
“The moment you bring in the private market, there is no place for the poor,” says housing lawyers.
There is hope to improve forward.
At the summit of G8 leaders in November, he ordered to clean the Johannesburg city neighborhood.
That was in March, and a focus were to be a sturdy building in the city.
In a document of the city authority was one of the areas that would benefit from MashallTown investment in “cleaner streets, safer buildings and renewed economic trust.
Johannesburg will “African resilience, innovation and potential will be throughout the world.”
But little will seem to happen so far and Zondo says that lasting change will take time.
“The G20 is two months. It is a lot that it will be a lot, but it is our expectation to improve the internal city of the Presidency and the decent housing of the Presidency and that we do not have another usindisis,” he explains.
As promised, in response to the question about that the field was not regenerated, the Mayor’s office said the BBC’s project would continue after the G20 Meeting.
Meanwhile, many residents in the usindiso building remain in limbo.
“I don’t see this change,” Mr. Tshabalala sighs.
“If people live like that,” he stated that homeless men pointing to the tents behind him: “I don’t see any changes.” I don’t know what is going on with our government. “