内容摘要："It's one of those things where you're one pay cheque away from becoming homeless."

"It's one of those things where you're one pay cheque away from becoming homeless."

“My moving in here was because of my son who's autistic,” she says. “He goes to school around the corner. It was so near for him. Everything is there. And he's flourished.”She settled her family in the former office of the hospital morgue.

Another tenant, Faldilah Petersen showed me how she has transformed a hospital bathroom into a home, turning the toilet cubicle into a kitchen, and the basin area into a bedroom.“I was evicted like 10 times in a year,” she tells me.“But living in this occupation gave me that opportunity to improve my life, and I’m more free to do what I need to and it’s much more nearer to the city as well. It’s like a homecoming.”

The city authorities have come round to agreeing that the site can be developed for residential purposes, but it calls the current tenants illegal occupiers and says they need to leave before the development starts.The ANC took power 30 years ago with a Freedom Charter that promised housing to a population deprived of secure and comfortable homes by apartheid. Since then, it has built more than three million and granted ownership for free, or for rent at below market rates.

But the lists for government houses are still long – Ms Davids has been waiting for nearly 30 years, Ms Petersen for longer.

And most have been built far from the city centre, where land is cheaper, failing to reverse the spatial planning of apartheid that embedded inequalities.The terrified woman told the man to hide in her bedroom wardrobe as Hinsley kicked and smashed his way through the front door, the court heard.

Hinsley pursued the pair upstairs and pulled a knife out of his pocket which he then used to repeatedly stab the man.He also swung the blade at his former partner, and she was convinced he would have stabbed her in the lung if her friend had not pushed her out of the way, Mr Faulks said.

The male victim suffered wounds to his face and shoulder, including an injury close to his eye, before Hinsley, who started filming the victim on his phone, fled the property, the court heard.As he left he smashed a TV in the woman's bedroom, Mr Faulks said.