An inquiry into the removal of people from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town will resume its public hearings on Tuesday. The inquiry, appointed by Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, will move to Nomzamo on Tuesday for a third round of public hearings. Residents directly affected by the SA National Roads[…]
An inquiry into the removal of people from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town will resume its public hearings next week, spokesman Vusi Tshose said on Friday. He said the inquiry, appointed by Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, would move to Nomzamo on Tuesday for a third round of public hearings.[…]
A Sheriff of the High Court who executed the removal of illegal shack dwellers from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town is sorry for the impact it had on residents, he said on Tuesday. “If something like this happens again, I’ll definitely handle this in a whole different manner,” Deon Burger[…]
The Ses’Khona People’s Rights Movement is not cashing in on the Lwandle land matter in Cape Town in any way, an inquiry into evictions on the land heard on Monday. “When Ses’Khona arrived there during these evictions, it was not the only time Ses’Khona was there. In January, from the[…]
Public hearings into the eviction of illegal shack dwellers in Lwandle, Cape Town are expected to continue into their second week on Monday. During the first week of hearings, Cape Town city mayor Patricia de Lille said that the City was not involved in the eviction of 849 families from[…]
Two evictions on Sanral-owned land in Lwandle, Cape Town, took place this year, mayor Patricia de Lille said in trying to set out the “facts” on Tuesday. She said the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) obtained an interdict in January to prevent land invasions and took down 415 illegal[…]
Talks aimed at finding a solution to the eviction of hundreds of families from an informal settlement in Lwandle, Cape Town, were “not a smooth-sailing exercise”, a government official said on Monday. “It was a very difficult exercise. There was a lot of mistrust between ourselves and community members,” a[…]
Public hearings into last month’s eviction of illegal shack dwellers in Lwandle, Cape Town, would begin on Monday, the housing ministry said. The hearings would be held at the Good Hope Sub-Council Building from 10am, spokesman Vusi Tshose said in a statement on Thursday. “The decision to appoint the inquiry[…]
Cape Town is ready to provide emergency housing kits to illegal shack dwellers evicted earlier in the week, mayor Patricia de Lille said on Friday.“Cape Town is the only metro in South Africa to have developed enhanced kits of this nature and that is able to deploy them at short[…]
The shocking forced evictions that took place at the Nomzamo township in Lwandle in Strand, were unconstitutional and unlawful, says leading constitutional law expert Prof. Pierre De Vos. Hundreds of informal settlers were forcibly evicted on Monday, from private land owned by Sanral. The situation took a u-turn on Tuesday,[…]
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