THESE astonishing pictures detail the poverty and gruelling hardship inside the 'white squatter camps' of South Africa.
Formed in the wake of the collapse of apartheid, they symbolise a reversal of fortunes for the country's white population who were once almost guaranteed employment.
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Chillo, from Munsieville squatter camp, repairs broken touch screen phones to afford his drug habitCredit: Barcroft Media
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Jannie Geldenhuys tends to his garden - he grows fruits and vegetables that he and his partner Sussana eat, saving costs on groceries each monthCredit: Barcroft Media
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A picture of Jannie Geldenhuys' son. Jannie has not seen his son for many years since he is unwilling to speak to his father and has moved overseasCredit: Barcroft Media
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Jeanine Maritz, 13, stands down the road from her mother's makeshift home. She lives with her father and visits her mother and aunt in Munsieville squatter camp on weekends and holidaysCredit: Barcroft Media
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Pictured is one of the many self constructed wooden homes in the Munsieville white squatter campCredit: Barcroft Media
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Jan lives next to the edge of the white squatter camp, like many other black residents of the camp, he has taken advantage of living in his self built home for free, bordering with the white squattersCredit: Barcroft Media
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Andre Coetzee spends his time digging through the dumpsite by the entrance to the squatter camp, he finds items that he spends time refurbishing with the idea of selling itCredit: Barcroft Media
Under the old decades-long white supremacist regime, blacks were kept segregated from the ruling white minority.
This brutal rule collapsed in the early 1990s and was finally abolished completely after Nelson Mandela was voted into power.
Although it paved the way for South Africa's burgeoning black middle class, it also facilitated the impoverished white camps which scatter the country today.
Photographer Jacques Nelles visited Munsieville township, one of the country's camps located west of Johannesburg.
He told : "The people I met mostly live off of disability funds from the government and they receive lots of sponsorship in terms of foods and other groceries from charities.
"Many of the people I spoke to felt they were in this situation because of their own doing and cannot see a way out.
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Resident Larriaune Cosmo kisses her pet bird Polly. She suffers from bipolar disorder, she is unable to afford her much needed medication, and her state disability income does not cover all of her medicinal needsCredit: Barcroft Media
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Pictured is a self built wooden shack near the edge of the white squatter campCredit: Barcroft Media
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Irene Van Niekerk washes her clothes in a bucket as her daughter tries to calm down her crying grandson in the backgroundCredit: Barcroft Media
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Children play under a makeshift bridge near the refuse dump by the entrance of the white squatter camp in MunsievilleCredit: Barcroft Media
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Pierre Potgieter sits in his garden. Pierre spends most of his free time tending his garden. He lives off of his state pensionCredit: Barcroft Media
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A picture Sussana Roos found in the dumpsite adorns the wall of her wooden house in MunsievilleCredit: Barcroft Media
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Children play in the weeds growing by the edges of the white squatter campCredit: Barcroft Media
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A child plays among the weeds that grow on the edges of the campCredit: Barcroft Media
"They keep feeding off of the charity they receive and there is a sense of them thinking they are entitled to it, that the system after apartheid has belittled them and therefore they can justify sitting back and receiving things from charity.
"Many of them also beg on street corners, most of them smoke and consume alcohol regularly and fail to see that they could rather have spent their meagre income on more useful things."
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