As Cape Town plans security measures along the N2 highway, shack dwellers say the project will separate the poor from the rich.

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Cape Town, South Africa – Thandi Jolingana, 46, beams with pride as she shows off the bathroom she built in her corrugated iron shack, after her husband went out to relieve himself at the communal toilet one night and was robbed at gunpoint.

Jolingana lives in a shantytown known as Taiwan, on the edge of Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township – a place where a private toilet is a luxury.