What I don't understand is..Did City of JHB only become aware of houses being built here illegally after 10 years? Why did they not do something when someone started building the very first house? Why now demolish houses that people have spent thousands on? Are squatter camps not also mostly built on City property? Report Abuse
Nov 12, 2012
sabza007
@Antie:
Good questions. Why wait for someone to build and complete the house and come years later to demolish it. South Africans are treated worse by its government. Report Abuse
Nov 12, 2012
KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
I dont know where they've learnt these cruel deeds (ANC GOV) they cannt say there's no alternatives than demolishing people's homes like that,I dont even think they tried to locate down the person who scammed these people. Report Abuse
Nov 12, 2012
MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
The land "sel.ling" was done during Mokonyane's tenure as MEC for housing, why are they only acting now
Imagine if ths was in Cape Town - the ANCYL and the likes of Tony Ehrenreich would have been calling for the mass murd.er of all wh.ite people by now. Report Abuse
Nov 12, 2012
Sandile84
Good to see SANCO making the news, they are awfully quite and it's time they make the news on a regular basis. Report Abuse
Nov 12, 2012
sowet123
The land belongs to Government why demolish houses. If it was privately owned I would understand.
Residents have spend their own money to build those houses or government want to spent more by giving all the families RDP houses?
The Sowetan needs to INVESTIGATE before going to "print"!! This story is not complete, it has soooo many shortcomings!
You first need to lay down the facts that answer the following simple questions (put into context):
1. Were the occupants receiving municipal services?
2. Was the CoJ billing them for this <10 year period?
3. If so, there would've been title deeds registered against the land to effect billings. Were there any? Were all the 163 houses/properties supported by "fraudulent" title deeds?
4. If there were, then weren't they the "legal occupants" of the dwellings on "legally" registered land (per the deeds office, etc)?
Sowet123, that's the part I don't understand. Here we have people who actually built their own houses, and did not ask government for an RDP. The land belongs to the city, so why not just help these people out instead of making them homeless? This whole process is so NP. Report Abuse
Nov 22, 2012
MusaSithole
Lenasia Youth Brutally Assaulted by Police
"We will kill him" says the policeman ... http://www.radioislam.org.za/a/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28197&Itemid=144
PERHAPS the response unit guys have good reasons and new evidence to disband the apparently racist black police officials. Shame on them all! Report Abuse
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antie
What I don't understand is..Did City of JHB only become aware of houses being built here illegally after 10 years? Why did they not do something when someone started building the very first house? Why now demolish houses that people have spent thousands on? Are squatter camps not also mostly built on City property?Report Abuse
sabza007
@Antie:Good questions. Why wait for someone to build and complete the house and come years later to demolish it. South Africans are treated worse by its government.
Report Abuse
KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
I dont know where they've learnt these cruel deeds (ANC GOV) they cannt say there's no alternatives than demolishing people's homes like that,I dont even think they tried to locate down the person who scammed these people.Report Abuse
MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
The land "sel.ling" was done during Mokonyane's tenure as MEC for housing, why are they only acting nowReport Abuse
cornelius
Imagine if ths was in Cape Town - the ANCYL and the likes of Tony Ehrenreich would have been calling for the mass murd.er of all wh.ite people by now.Report Abuse
Sandile84
Good to see SANCO making the news, they are awfully quite and it's time they make the news on a regular basis.Report Abuse
sowet123
The land belongs to Government why demolish houses. If it was privately owned I would understand.Residents have spend their own money to build those houses or government want to spent more by giving all the families RDP houses?
Report Abuse
Sophisticated_Ignorance
The Sowetan needs to INVESTIGATE before going to "print"!! This story is not complete, it has soooo many shortcomings!You first need to lay down the facts that answer the following simple questions (put into context):
1. Were the occupants receiving municipal services?
2. Was the CoJ billing them for this <10 year period?
3. If so, there would've been title deeds registered against the land to effect billings. Were there any? Were all the 163 houses/properties supported by "fraudulent" title deeds?
4. If there were, then weren't they the "legal occupants" of the dwellings on "legally" registered land (per the deeds office, etc)?
Report Abuse
antie
Sowet123, that's the part I don't understand. Here we have people who actually built their own houses, and did not ask government for an RDP. The land belongs to the city, so why not just help these people out instead of making them homeless? This whole process is so NP.Report Abuse
MusaSithole
Lenasia Youth Brutally Assaulted by Police"We will kill him" says the policeman ... http://www.radioislam.org.za/a/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28197&Itemid=144
PERHAPS the response unit guys have good reasons and new evidence to disband the apparently racist black police officials. Shame on them all!
Report Abuse
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