In pictures: Leaving Cape Town's shacks

Building continues at Mandela Park. Anthony Gcazela has come to look at the site where he will move with his wife and child. He is looking forward to leaving Site C and getting a proper house.

Yet the challenges for other families remain vast. The Western Cape has a housing backlog of 320,000 families. Each year, 48,000 people arrive in the province from elsewhere in search of work, yet the current budget allows the province to build only 18,000 houses per year.