Residents enduring high temperatures spend much of their time seeking shade, in the Itireleng shanty town near Pretoria, South Africa, on Aug. 20.
Photographer: Leon Sadiki/BloombergJustice
Urban Heat Stress Is Another Disparity in the World’s Most Unequal Nation
South African shantytowns are far hotter than wealthy city suburbs.
Noluthando Geja isn’t looking forward to summer.
The unemployed 44-year-old dreads the fast-approaching hottest months of the year, when the blistering sun beats down on the steel-sheet roof of the two-room house she shares with three children in Itireleng, a shantytown wedged between Johannesburg and South Africa’s capital, Pretoria.