People desperate for housing in a country with sky-high unemployment have taken to squatting in squalid conditions in former office buildings that are rented out by criminal gangs.
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"When I see today happening this thing, I think God was the one moving me there," she said."I see ... the other lady lose the child and the other child is in hospital."Meanwhile, Mthabiseng Maimane, from a neighboring apartment block, complains criminal elements in such hijacked buildings are contributing to Johannesburg's already shockingly high crime rates.
The security is so precarious that even the police are scared to enter the city's hijacked buildings — of which there are believed to be dozens.
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