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MEC Mamabolo visits evicted family Ntombi Nkosi, The New Age, Johannesburg, 9 July 2014 With winter at its peak a family of eight including a five year old has been enduring the cold weather with nothing but a tent structure over their heads after being evicted last Friday. The family's spokesperson, Willie Ntuli, 23, told The New Age that they were homeless for the second time in one week. "We were evicted from plot 63 in Rayton, east of Tshwane, where our late mother, Elizabeth Mahlangu was working since 1983." "I was on my way to Limpopo for a job interview at a mine when I received a call our belongings were thrown out by the sheriff, there was no one at home." After Ntuli and her siblings returned, they found their furniture, clothes and important documents lying on the street, damaged. Some of their belongings were stolen after the "red ants left them unattended". "We remembered that an eviction letter that we received in 2011 stated that we must move to a plot in Rayton," said Ntuli. On Saturday, the siblings erected a temporary structure and went to bed without food, since they had lost most of their kitchen utensils. Their maize meal had sand in it and they had to throw it away. The temperature was 1°C, they made a fire on the ground and covered themselves with single blankets, since their tent had no side covers. "On Sunday, a man who introduced himself as "Lekwane", apparently from the city of Tshwane, called the metro police to destroy our structure. We had no place to go and so we re-built it," said Ntuli. On Monday, the same individual returned and threatened to demolish the structure again. "We told him that we had nowhere to go and we were not moving," he said. Ntuli said out of the eight, only Daniel Ntuli 32, is a breadwinner. He earns R4000 per month which must care of all of them. Yesterday, Gauteng human settlements MEC Jacob Mamabolo, accompanied by the rental housing tribunal chairperson Mamodupi Mohlala, visited the evicted family. "The MEC gave us R1000 to buy equipment that will assist in building our four-room shack. "We are grateful, because we are also going to buy maize meal, porridge and cabbage. We have been going to bed on empty stomachs," said Ntuli. Mamabolo assured the family that they could stay in peace on government land after they were evicted from their home. "As the provincial government, we remain concerned about the possible abuse of eviction orders to dispossess people of their homes. "In this case, we have discovered that the eviction order was issued by the court in August 2011, but the court stamp is dated February 10, 2014. The matter was brought as an urgent application, but only implemented three years later. "I have requested my legal team, together with the legal team from the city to investigate the validity of this eviction order," said Mamabolo. Mamabolo expressed concern at the selective application of the law, whereby the eviction order instructed the landowner to pay R25000 towards the relocation expenses of the evictees but it was not paid. The money was supposed to be paid before the eviction, however the sheriff went ahead to evict before the requirement was met. [email protected] From: http://www.thenewage.co.za/131009-1007-53-MEC_Mamabolo_visits_evicted_family -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
