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Johannesburg moves homeless away from world cup stadiums

2010-05-28 1,029 Dailymotion

With nearly a thousand people thought to be living on the streets of Johannesburg, the city's two state-run shelters are already struggling -- leaving NGOs and charities to take the strain. Now, with the World Cup approaching, city authorities have been forcibly moving people from the streets around football stadiums, sometimes with police help. It's a policy which has drawn criticism from human rights groups, who say it doesn't get to the root causes of poverty in South Africa. A voiced AFPTV report.