Joburg’s abandoned elders — inside the City’s failing old-age home system
Daily Maverick | 01.12.2025 02:35
The City of Joburg has lost operational and financial control of its 39 municipally owned old-age homes. With fewer than one in five residents paying rent, there are a large number of units standing empty because they are uninhabitable. The maintenance backlog is so severe that the City estimates it needs R87.7-million just to rehabilitate less than half of the portfolio it has audited so far.
