Frustration over South African racial disparities builds as poll nears

A construction worker holds a door frame inside an incomplete house at the Baken Park township near Bethlehem, South Africa, April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham

BETHLEHEM, South Africa (Reuters) - After a decade of living in a tiny corrugated iron shack, Nyani Moloi was ecstatic when she was handed the keys to a two-bedroom brick house built by the government.

But the unemployed grandmother's joy quickly turned to anger when she discovered the home has no running water or electricity; the toilet does not flush, and rain seeps through the walls.