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Meet Coach Errol

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A llow me to introduce you to Coach Errol. He is the coach of a fledgling little soccer team in the place called Blikkiesdorp known as Blikkiesdorp United FC. For those that do not know "Blikkiesdorp", so named by the people who live there actually has a much fancier name. It was known as the "Symphony Way TEMPORARY Relocation Site", with the emphasis on "temporary". People that were taken off the streets by than DA queen Helen and than city mayor Dan were moved to this site in 2007. They built neat little single room corrugated iron shacks, placed them in neat rows with nothing inside. Every fourth shack had to share a toilet and there were no bathrooms. No foundations were laid for the structures and there were no floors laid for the shacks. They were simply put down on an open piece of rocky ground. After all. It was just a "temporary solution" to a growing housing crisis in the city. Now, sixteen years later "houses" are been buil