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Hijacked buildings show that criminals understand the forces of history better than policymakers
After making an effort to dwell on the names and the lost hopes of the victims of last week’s Jeppestown fire, perhaps the next most important thing for policymakers to think about is the name of the hijacked building that is now a blackened hulk — not its formal name (if it ever had one) but the name it is known by, its truer name.
This name, Enkanini means “stubborn” in Zulu. We learn from long-time resident Tholakele Dlamini, in a post on X by an EWN reporter, that people who stayed in the building “call it that because the municipality has tried to evict them a number of times before but they always return”...
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