IN-DEPTH | Joburg's migrant journey: 'It'll never stop, because it's about life and living'

Life's a journey, enjoy the ride. But what if that journey is filled with fire and displacement? Muhammad Hussain talks to some of the survivors about their horrific experiences since the fire at the Usindiso building on 80 Albert Street in Johannesburg. They talk about their journey to the building and now away from the place they once called home.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, 77 people died after the dilapidated building in the city centre they lived in burnt on last Friday. By Monday, the stench of garbage hung thick, the shacks next to the building shimmered as the zinc caught the sun, while broken electronics and phone batteries littered the floor. 

The cash-for-scrap shop opposite the building was open for business, while the caretaker of a spaza shop down the road aggressively asked when his electricity would be back. Another building diagonally across was emptied of its occupants the day before. At least 50 of them sat down the road, defiant in their homelessness, confident they would return to the squalor the city had kicked them out of.