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# Watch - Joburg’s Upper Houghton mansions ‘now slumlord dumps’

> [YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L02sPkQ33xU)

By Anna Cox · Published 24 May 2026, 12:18 SAST

[Watch the video on Daily Maverick](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/video/2026-05-24-watch-joburgs-upper-houghton-mansions-now-slumlord-dumps/)

## Content

*[Watch video on Daily Maverick](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/video/2026-05-24-watch-joburgs-upper-houghton-mansions-now-slumlord-dumps/)*

The Joburg heritage area of Upper Houghton is facing severe pressure as historic homes are being vandalised, occupied and falling into disrepair. Daily Maverick’s Anna Cox explains.

**Reporting by:**Anna Cox
**Edited by:** Joel Seboa
**Filmed by:** Malibongwe Tyilo
**Produced by:**Emilie Gambade
**Sub-edited by:** Ian Wolstenholme

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