An infestation of Norway rats on Gauteng's East Rand has become so bad that some Katlehong residents have nicknamed the area Ratlehong, the Sunday Times reports.

"They are as big as my size nine shoe... my two big dogs deal with them," businessman Mlungisi Galawe told the newspaper.

"Other people throw them in the streets after killing them, which means one gets to see many dead rats daily."

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