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Jul
Hertta-Maria Amutenja The moment you step into the Grootfontein Single Quarters, the pungent smell of urine greets you from what should be ablution facilities. The stench is overwhelming as if the very air is saturated with years of neglect. Scattered rubbish and crumbling buildings tell a story of forgotten people and forsaken promises, remnants of the apartheid era. This is the condition in which residents of single quarters have lived for years. “There is no difference from this pigsty we are in,” said Linus Iyambo, who has been living in the single quarters since 1992. These quarters, erected in the…