Shack is the period after the harvest when there was a right to graze the newly harvested ground.
He lived in a tumbledown shack and had survived on a small payment that he received after the accident and by visiting soup kitchens.
Until recently, few houses had been built to last, but now concrete block structures are replacing wooden and wattle-and-daub houses and shacks.
To the north, on the building frontier, there is a line of huts and shacks.
Three-in-ten of their households occupied a shack and one-tenth had no toilet.
I know of grandmothers who have to live in a back-garden shack.
Many of the latter were housed for extended periods in transit camps of tents or shacks.
The first law of amnesty for already built gecekondu (shacks built "overnight") enacted in 194950 was followed by similar pieces of legislation under successive governments.
