‘They have no roof over them, just blankets and a couple of mattresses’

So, how was your Monday morning this week? Were you doing a bit of whinging about work, did the traffic get to you or was the weather driving you mad?

Suffice to say, no matter what was bugging you, your Monday morning was far better than the two families who live on the side of the road outside the apartment I’m staying in here in Cape Town.

The road, which is called Nelson Mandela Boulevard, has four lanes of traffic in each direction, bumper-to-bumper coming into Cape Town each morning and then on the way back out in the evening.