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OUR LITTLE TOWNSHIP HAVEN

‘Shacks can be beautiful, comfortable and inspiring’

IT’S not worth it, they said.

Why are you wasting your time and money on a shack, people would ask Sandile and Thembisa Ndlovu, as they spent three years toiling at what they hoped would become the home of their dreams.

Now, a small plot on the flat brown landscape of Paballelo in rural Upington, in the Northern Cape, is interrupted by bursts of colour – a house with walls painted a deep shade of blue; a lush green lawn framed by pale rocks;

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