He said the total cost to build the smallest house model was about R230,000. It was R350,000 for a middle-sized house, and R480,000 for the 80 square metre houses.

Our double-storey homes range from 36 square metres to 80 square metres according to a family's needs," she says. Vlok says the plan was for the close-knit community to keep relationships intact.

The 33-year-old security guard ascribes this to his new home, a double-storey in Khayelitsha’s BT Section, in which he lives with his partner and their three children aged 11, 6 and 3.

He began collecting materials in 2015, and today he boasts a double-storey house with seven rooms, a balcony and a beautiful garden, all constructed using corrugated iron. ALSO READ: Booysens ...

An informal settlement with no access to electricity, water and toilets in a Cape Town suburb has been transformed into brightly coloured rows of double-storey flats with its own community centre, ...