SA Affordable Housing September - October 2016 // Issue: 60 | Page 24

FEATURE
South African townships largely comprise high
concentrations of informal housing and shacks, connected
by potholed roads, with poor power, water and road
infrastructure. Traditionally, water pressure has been low,
with sparse amounts available to each household. But
since 1994, the government has attempted to raise living
standards – shacks are slowly being replaced by
government-subsidised houses, roads are tarred and
repaired and basic services are slowly being put in p