Mannenberg, also known by the locals as “The Chatjies”, is a coloured township on the Cape flats. It is a seriously dangerous and crime invested place where gangs like the “Americans” and the “Hard Livings” shoot and chop each other up regularly.

In this area, in 1996, the white taxpayers built the G.F. Jooste Hospital with over 200 beds and servicing more than 5000 black and coloured patients per month .

In 2010, the hospital received a R2m donation from the Oasis Crescent Fund Trust for the upgrade of its emergency ward.

After the ANC ran the hospital into the ground, it was decided to close it up last year and renovate it at a cost of R785 million .The plan was to reopen it in 2019.

Now, 19 years later, all that remains of the building are smashed windows, wrecked walls and demolished ceilings…

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The locals said that people came with donkey carts and taxis to cart things away.

“It is like a shopping mall. You just go in and take what you want, but only you don’t pay.”

Vandals target vacant GF Jooste Hospital:

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