City of Joburg takes responsibility for Alex demolition, by JKwritingz
“I am an accounting officer in the city, so I do take responsibility for what happened. From my understanding, the structures targeted were unoccupied, incomplete and those which were complete were unoccupied. That being that, on the same day we released the disaster management [to help the homeless people],” he said.
The demolition was apparently as a result of illegal occupants building structures too close to the Jukskei River, an area prone to flooding. He reiterated that the officials involved in executing the eviction order obtained in 2016 would face grave consequences. This promise was met with polarised reactions. Those who lost their homes in the demolition were jovial but residents living in other parts of Alexandra expressed that those whose homes had been demolished were not originally from the township. They claimed that the individuals had moved in after being evicted from the inner city.
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