Plastic View residents want permission to build permanent structures

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Fire victims in China's plastic view informal settlement have already started rebuilding their homes. Our reporter Juliet Joseph has been speaking to them throughout the morning and joins us now live from there. Juliet, I see a number of those homeowners working tirelessly to ensure that those structures are up before sunset.

[00:00:23]>> Certainly, Katlego, and they've been up by 6:00 or so to try and ensure that they get, you know, the stay structures built up a place of shelter to lay their heads. The ones we've spoken to, most of them have told us that the contributions and donations they received from organizations in the form of mattresses and some meals did really make a bit of a difference. Some of them are almost complete with building their structures, while others they still, you know, banging onto the rods and the you know, iron sheets, still digging to put the poles in and some already just creating almost a temporary structure, so to speak. And at the moment, I do have the gentleman, Katlego, who is, you know, owning the structure that you see right here in the shot with a plastic here in a plastic view informal settlement. As you can see, I'm just going to quickly move out of shot there for you. As you can see the structure here, I'm just going to quickly chat to him. Um, thank you so much, Ndatemane Seleka, for your time. Tell us, are you done, as we can see there, are you done building your shelter or do you still have more work to do?

[00:01:48]And the plastic elegant thing And the corner of the company Maswago ne. The company Maswago ne. The company >> 2000 rand Just explain to us what it is.

[00:02:22]Why did you steal plastic?

[00:02:30]Thank you papa. I'm glad to have you here the gentleman did it still busy.

[00:02:34]You know trying building this structure and I do have the community leader with me. I'm told that the plastic got to what does keep people warm at night so it's much easier for now just to get the ladies that are inside keep warm there is a child as well there but I'm with the community leader of plastic view in formal settlement. Hello my you live on newsroom Africa. Thanks for your time mama. What did you do last night? I see this board you were recording.

[00:03:11]So So So some of the challenges in plastic view Got it.

[00:04:00]>> So, since you remove the mall So, what I know I know for now the plastic is from the lower more or less the same each and every time. But every time So, I don't know who in that time And they really made us see some of the Okay, some of the people I think you owe So, we learn that as a leadership as they speak of the office and it's a more plastic issue.

[00:05:03]Remember I got to tell you So, I what about you there 10 and then you have M Khululi A1.

[00:05:20]season So, Or and and this is a permanent structure so this Okay, the government be in corner Thursday but they be saying in Okay, and is all about the number of people about the number of children?

[00:05:53]And you got the number of children 254.

[00:05:56]Let me know the total number of children in number in my sight. Number of children Number of children 71.

[00:06:04]Number of adults 254.

[00:06:09]Number of children is 71.

[00:06:13]Thank you.

[00:06:14]Number of children The number of children is all about Is it all about the number of children?

[00:06:26]So Thank you, Mama. Okay.

[00:06:37]Katlego, oh, as you heard her saying that there are a lot of challenges that remain in this informal settlement.

[00:06:43]Challenges of unemployment, challenges of crime. You know, waste as we drove here, we could see a lot of waste on the floor. And also her saying that according to her, government is not promising much. But government was here on Thursday, you know, also talking about issues of relocation and saying that they will be working with EMS, you know, to try and help the people of this informal settlement. Katlego, but we do know that Gift of the Givers will be here shortly to also render their support in helping the people of Plastic View Informal Settlement, Katlego.

[00:07:15]>> Some food aid certainly is needed in situations of this kind. Those residents of Plastic View out in Soshanguve rebuilding their lives after fire having ravaged most of those homes.

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