When Masi was opened up some 25 years ago it was with an undertaking that the area would house 3000 people. Since then it has grown to (I believe), close to 50,000. People stream in from all over southern Africa and the Eastern Cape absolutely at will, and the unfortunate people that work to manage the city are simply expected to make services and housing available at a moment's notice. It is impossible to plan for this kind of influx, particularly when the residents and so-called Masi management make no effort whatsoever to restrict the influx. How come in every other suburb if one wants to live there one must either buy, rent or build a property, and pay the necessary rates to help sustain the area? Yet the residents of Masi and all the other so-called informal settlements simply move in at will and begin to make demands without contributing anything other than chaos and litter. The Kings and Leaders in the Homelands won't give their people Freehold, why should the City of Cape Town.