Thousands of shacks, similar to this one, once occupied the site where the Habitat houses were built. According to the JCWP 2002 Volunteer Manual, Indians and black Africans were forcibly removed from this area in the early 1960s by the apartheid authorities. Their houses were torn down and the land was cleared to reinforce racial separatism. This land has now become a place where people of all races came together to build simple, decent, and affordable houses for those in need.
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