Floods in QQ Section

Floods at QQ Section Informal Settlement Khayelitsha.

QQ is a home to more than 600 families and the area does not have toilets, electricity and the are only 8 working tapes that the whole settlements depends on.
The land in which people are living at is owned by Eskom and the area is flood prone, and that makes it difficult for people who are living at this area to come up with ways to prevent their homes from getting flooded.

(MaDlamini and her family forced out by the floods)



Madlamini has been living at QQ for more than 15 years she is coming from Eastern Cape originally and she is living with her two children who are still attending school at nearby high school and with her grand child which is 3 years old.

Madlamini is unemployed and is selling sweats for a living and the only reason why she is still living at QQ because she can't afford better house anywhere at South Africa apart from her shack.

This is the life that she is living each an every year Madlamini had to move out of her house to make a way for the water which always forces her out of it, now she is used at sharing her house with the water during Cape Town winter heavy rains.




)Mama maDlamini looking at
her flooded shack hopeless}


Not only Madlamini had to leave his house but more than 100 families Had to leave their places and go and beg place to stay at their neighbors and some had to go and live with their families.

This is the most popular place at qq called Water Front, as you can see the whole area is surrounded by the water, during this time of the year you can not move around or in between the shacks


(Houses totally surrounded by the water)

Some people had to use crates in order to access their House and that is why the area is called the Water Front a most attractive tourist place at Cape Tow where people take a boat to Robin Island.
Here at QQ people take a boat to access their houses.
Government officials from both the City of Cape Town including the mayor Hellen Zille and the provincial housing department had been at QQ to lip service people.

As a results of that people from QQ had decided to mobilise outside the system and now are heading the movement of the shack dwellers for Western Cape known as Abahlali baseMjondolo and currently are working with more than 15 informal settlements around Khayelitsha





(People are forced to used bread
and beer creates to access their house)



(Bongani going in side the house using the creates as a vehicle while his big brother is watching)