Durban’s own chic shacks

Durban’s own chic shacks - pictures

Vumani Mzolo and Sbusisiwe's double story home was lifted from being a shack and made into a beceautiful bamboo double story restaurant, gym and house. The neat sophisticated house says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture:Ryan Adams.
Vumani Mzolo and Sbusisiwe's double story home was lifted from being a shack and made into a beceautiful bamboo double story restaurant, gym and house. The neat sophisticated house says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture:Ryan Adams.
Nhlanhla Zulu, 51, lives on 74 Umgudulu Road shack settlement. The beautiful and sophisticated shack says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture:Ryan Adams.
Nomaswazi Simelani's Quarry Road home has the red-painted floors and cream corrugated iron walls. Her cousin helped her to decorate the place, which has a television set, a curtained-off bedroom and a small kitchen. Picture: Ryan Adams
Zakhele Mavundla, 23 lives in Cato Manor shack settlement. The neat sophisticated shack says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture:Ryan Adams.
Some shacks in Cato Manor shack settlement are graffiti painted. The beautiful and sophisticated shack says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture:Ryan Adams.
Alton Sibiya's Kennedy Road shack interior is so impressive that the house says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture: SANDILE NDLOVU
Nomaswazi Simelani's Quarry Road home has the red-painted floors and cream corrugated iron walls. Her cousin helped her to decorate the place, which has a television set, a curtained-off bedroom and a small kitchen. Picture:Ryan Adams
Hand painted pring marks decorate the chicken coop at the New Germany shack settlement in Reservour Hills. The beautiful and sophisticated shack says little about the uneployment, peverty and lack of services the community faces. Picture:Ryan Adams.

Published Oct 10, 2011

South Africa’s shack dwellers are proof of how much can be created with little. Inspired by Shack Chic, a book by photographer Craig Fraser, the Sunday Tribune went closer to home to find Durban’s own shack chic.

South Africa’s shack dwellers are proof how much can be created with so little. Inspired by Shack Chic, a book by photographer Craig Fraser, the Sunday Tribune went closer to home to find Durban’s own shack chic.