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Ecstasy as Kibera slum residents finally reach ‘promised land’ after years of waiting

By Joe Kiarie and Kenfrey Kiberenge

When a seemingly intoxicated young man jumped precariously over a ditch and marshalled his colleagues to demolish a rickety shanty in Kibera’s Soweto East village, he unwittingly made history.

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