1. Twenty-one people died in one attack on a squatter camp in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg. 2. The new measures included a curfew, the cordoning-off of hostels and squatter camps with razor wire and mounting light machine guns on armoured vehicles. 3. The Less Formal Township Establishment Bill would speed up the creation and approval of new settlements, mainly squatter camps and shanties, ensuring minimum facilities. 4. More than thirty people have been massacred at a squatter camp near Johannesburg. 5. A police helicopter traced the green BMW to Orange Farm, a giant squatter camp south of Johannesburg. 6. At around the same time the body of a six-year-old girl was discovered in a neighboring squatter camp. 7. Busiswe Mavuso lives in a squatter camp in the township of Alexandra, next to Sandton. 8. But at night, when the guns sing in the nearby squatter camp, she and her husband lie in bed wide-eyed and frightened. 9. But even some government officials admit privately that vast squatter camps far from any job possibilities are potential disaster areas. 10. But it swirls, too, around most homes in Soweto and also around the dirt yards and corrugated metal shacks of squatter camps. |