July 2011
3 posts
SABELO MLANGENI
In Apartheid times, male hostels were created to house workers from out of town that were not allowed to live inside the city. I seem to recall Sabelo saying that they were exclusively male in order to make sure entire families of rural black South Africans would not move in. They were meant to be transitory flophouses, where men would stay only for the duration of their work.
I don’t know...
