Inside South Africa’s hijacked-building crisis: Crime, desperation and a state struggling to reclaim its own

From Johannesburg to Cape Town and eThekwini, illegal occupation, unsafe buildings and housing desperation are colliding with weak enforcement and slow state property recovery.

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