{"id":4350,"date":"2024-09-16T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:08:47","slug":"couples-fail-to-be-intimate-living-in-overcrowded-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"Couples Fail to be Intimate Living in Overcrowded Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>South African Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.zimgbcnews.co zw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Families living in Jacob&#8217;s Farm, Ekurhuleni, South Africa, are facing dire living conditions, with overcrowding severely impacting their well-being and personal relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re raising our children in conditions we wish we could avoid\u2026 Everything happens here. It&#8217;s stressful and uncomfortable,&#8221; said a frustrated mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four families are forced to share a single house, limiting intimacy and privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Couples can&#8217;t even have private moments\u2026 When some are drunk, they make noise, and it&#8217;s uncomfortable,&#8221; said Ntombekhaya Bekwa, a former farmworker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bekwa criticized politicians for neglecting their struggles, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They come for photos, seeking donations or benefits\u2026 It&#8217;s disheartening. Our children aren&#8217;t working, and we need jobs to improve our circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community is calling for government intervention to renovate and expand their living spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have space in the yards\u2026 We hope the municipality can create separate living areas for families,&#8221; Bekwa pleaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former farmworkers echoed Bekwa&#8217;s sentiments, highlighting the need for privacy and personal space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Living in cramped quarters is stressful and uncomfortable\u2026 We need decent conditions to raise our children,&#8221; said one resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community urges local authorities to address their concerns and provide a better environment for their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Correspondent www.zimgbcnews.co zw Families living in Jacob&#8217;s Farm, Ekurhuleni, South Africa, are facing dire living conditions, with overcrowding severely impacting their well-being and personal relationships. &#8220;We&#8217;re raising our&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}