You are allowed to build a shack on it but not a permanent structure. "Township land belongs to the municipality. Anderton learned this while building the first house in Blue Downs township near Cape Town last year. But even with a bigger budget an e-khaya project is a legal quagmire. He once figured that for the price of its world cup stadium, Cape Town could build e-khayas for 2 million people. "The prototype had not even been finished, the municipality already wanted to demolish it," says Jonny Anderton who has designed a safe sandbag-house called e-khaya for informal settlements. Yet political and financial hurdles have so far stood in the way of building modern shacks on a large scale.
To bring relief from these everyday dangers, designers are proposing intermediate steps between shacks and brick houses – quick, low-cost, temporary solutions – until the state housing programme catches up on its backlog.
Throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of shacks make dense townships which grapple with fires, floods and sanitation problems.
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