Posts tagged with 'illegal land grabs'

 

Illegal landgrabbers vowed to start new informal settlement in Kimberley titled ‘SCANDAL’ and wants to erect around 150 shacks soon

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A group of Galeshewe residents have started marking sites for shanties to be erected on a piece of land on Twalu and Royal streets.“We inquired and we were told that the land belongs to the municipality and it forms part of the proposed by-pass road.”

IN YET another land invasion in Kimberley, community members of Ward 33 in Chris Hani Park started clearing an open piece of veld yesterday, where they vowed to start a new informal settlement, named “Scandal”.

Community members waited in vain on Monday to meet with the Sol Plaatje executive mayor, Patrick Mabilo.

The residents said they had a meeting with the mayor’s office in May this year regarding the large, open piece of land in the area, which they pointed out had become a notorious hot spot for crime.

“There are always robberies and murders going on there and even babies that are dumped.”

According to the residents they have been asking the Sol Plaatje Municipality for permission to ere
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Syndicate, corrupt officials and even police officers work together in illegal land grabs

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Residents in the Lenasia neighborhood, previously an Indian neighborhood, are busy protesting. The protest stems from the growing number of squatters who set up their huts in the south of Lenasia.

They regard this illegal land occupation as a risk to their safety and that it affects the value of properties. The neighborhood is now almost surrounded by informal structures.

Service delivery is apparently influenced and illegal coupling of power and water causes further stress.

The police had to use rubber bullets to chase the stickers apart. The MEC of housing Lobogang Maile said in a statement that syndicates work with corrupt officials and even police officers who “help” squatters to occupy illegal land.

-Vryburger / 2019-07-22

 

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Illegal land grabs take place in Durban after hundreds of people who are fed up with slow pace of housing delivery allocated plots themselves and start building shacks

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Fed up with the slow pace of housing delivery, hundreds of people have invaded vacant state land earmarked for a low-cost housing project in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban.

The residents descended on land in Mary Thipe Road, which boarders Mayville and Manor Gardens, on Monday and Tuesday and started clearing the bushes and allocating themselves plots to start building shacks.

While many residents were not willing to be interviewed or photographed, Happy Zwane told TimesLIVE that she was clearing the bush so that she could build her two children a home to leave them with when she dies.

“I have two children and I’m not married and I want to clear a plot for them so that when I die they would have a place to live. I don’t have a place of my own because I don’t own the place I live in. So I want to live my children with a home,” she said.

Others complained about being used as voting fodder by polit
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Illegal land grabs in North West province took place during the weekend and SAPS were unresponsive, ignoring calls for help – Notice the cars driven by the land thieves in the picture attached

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Illegal land grab incident occurred on January 12, 2019 in De Wildt, situated in the North West Province.

According to witnesses the South African Police Services (SAPS) were unresponsive, ignoring calls for help, doing nothing despite trespassing cases that have been opened.

President Ramaphosa of South Africa in September, 2018 announced in New York to main stream media at the United Nations that there are no illegal land grabs in South Africa as he was talking about foreign investments.

Illegal Land grabs happen often almost every weekend and have done for several years, this is just another example.

Originally posted by Break The Silence End Caucasian Genocide In South-Africa
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