Born in Greece and raised in South Africa, she presents the network’s Connecting Africa and Marketplace Middle East feature shows. Either abandoned by their owners or surrendered to gangs, these “hijacked” buildings typically house migrants or poverty-stricken locals in downtown Johannesburg. The first time I visited one of these buildings I was based in South Africa as a correspondent, and what I found was shocking. “I can take you to buildings 10 times worse than this,” the mayor told me. Some of the gangs were not even from South Africa, we were told.

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