daily basis, to move chairs out of the way to lay out mattresses at night in the living room
and/or kitchen.
2.
Where are people now?
We were able to track down at least some information on the post‐2005 movements of 64%
of people on these 27 stands (173 people), although 96 people remain entirely unaccounted
for. In the case of these 96, those still on the stands simply knew that others had left and they
had no idea where for. In only one case, did we find that there had been a complete turnover
of who was living on the stand, so that current information about the 2005 inhabitants was
completely absent. In all other cases, we either found at least one of the previous residents
still on the stand, or we found other family members from the same family as the 2005
landlords/ tenants, meaning that they could tell us where people now were, as they were
relatives. In many instances, the information was simply about the first move that a certain
tenant had made, which might have been immediately, or several years, after OM. Landlords
might report that a certain tenant had moved to another high density suburb in 2007, but had
no idea where exactly, or what further moves might have occurred since then.
Each person has been allocated only one category of movement, being the most recent known:
ie if someone moved first to another urban address, and then later to a rural home, they are
listed as being rural. If somebody moved to a rural home and then died, they are listed as
being dead.
Chart ii: general whereabouts of 2005 urban residents, five years after OM
Of the 173 whose history of movement is known:
53 were known to have remained on the same stand: 30%
32 people were known to have left initially for another urban address: 19%
41 people moved to a rural home: 24%
28 were known to have gone into the diaspora: 16%
19 were known to have died: 11%
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