S.African township squalid and neglected despite 25 years of black rule

A man stands near public toilets placed on a dump site in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 10, 2019. [Reuters]

Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa’s main financial district, but has existed in squalor for 30 years.

Unemployed and in her 50s, she picks her way along a stream full of sewage, dead rats and empty beer bottles to reach the cramped concrete and corrugated iron shack that she shares with her five children.