Let us contextualise our reality right now to understand the enormity of what still has to be done. We are a well-renowned country for the inequalities of our societies that is always graphically illustrated in the patterns of settlements that we have. Statistics SA indicates that half of our population is living in poverty. These are mainly in the rural areas especially in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo. These are people who migrate to urban areas at the rate of 2,4% per annum, putting pressure on the infrastructure and the backlog of the people who need shelter resulting in scenes such as we have seen recently from Alexander. We still continue with a skewed development where the developed parts of the country extract cheap labour from rural areas, further under- developing these areas.