The devastating fires in the slums of South Africa's Johannesburg expose the deeper crisis of housing triggered by neoliberal policies.

Johannesburg, once Africa’s economic powerhouse ... Its residents are bearing the brunt of this crisis. They live in slum-like conditions and pay rent and protection fees to gangs who collect ...

“Depending which way the wind blows, the sulphur smell can be quite asphyxiating,” she says. In the slums and shantytowns ...