“Because, you know, I have some skill at kicking and leading, under the circumstances. “I would vote for myself, because I’m the only one I can trust,” she says. Life has taught Hlobo to trust only herself, and God.
She explains that her tent-mates are men and that she doesn’t feel quite safe.
Hlobo has been sleeping with friends in a structure across the road – Helen Suzman Boulevard. We as homeless, man, you know: ‘Cape Town works.’ What? For who? Cape Town fails! The whole nation fails, you know what I mean?” Johan Benson (42, left) and Whinzel Hendricks, (50) sleep in the ‘veldjie’ next to the tennis courts in Sea Point. You know what I mean? With political parties the only people who benefit are those in higher places. We don’t care if it’s DA, ANC, EFF, whatever. “As you can see, for building our structures with. Her friend, Fundi Hlobo (41), walks up, pointing at the DA poster.
“Who would I vote for? All I care about is everything I own being wet,” says Qwabe. But low clouds are a sign it will rain again soon.
