Life-Giving Assets at a Johannesburg Informal Settlement: Black Faith and the False Gods of Multiculturalism in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

According to Anton Haber, there are about 182 informal settlements in Johannesburg, the biggest city in South Africa, with close to 2,000 in the whole of South Africa.¹ The harsh conditions of squalor and sordid life are an imprint of the past in South Africa, the time of colonization and apartheid domination. One can successfully argue that these harsh conditions evidently epitomized by “shack” life in South Africa, portray the new forms of social Darwinism in what promised to be a new South Africa of “a better life for all.”