This is a picture of the conditions the blacks are living in. Nothing more than huts made of wooden pallets, old window frames in fact anything they could get hold of. As you can see - many roofs were just bin liners held on with heavy rocks. The homes were only a few feet square - all the living was done in just the one room. Some of the squatter camps we saw must have held hundreds and hundreds of such dwellings.

The blacks would travel many miles to get work - sometimes on foot but often they would be picked up in 'Backies' - or what we would call pickup trucks. A 15 seater mini-bus would carry about 30 people. We followed a small van (with no windows) - the back was being held by a black hand. When we pulled up at traffic lights the back door opened and we could see a dozen or so black men huddled in the back. If the van had to do an emergency stop we would have had them all thrown out in front of us.

As we were told - in Africa life is cheap !!