About 500 families unlawfully occupying RDP houses in Mackenzieville Extension 2, Nigel, were evicted early on Tuesday. | GroundUp_News
On Tuesday morning about 500 families were evicted after unlawfully occupying RDP houses in Nigel since 2019.About 500 families unlawfully occupying RDP houses in Mackenzieville Extension 2, Nigel, were evicted early on Tuesday.
"During all the confusion, l was lucky to find a place to hide. They should just let us have the house because we have no place to go." John Richard Webb, who is blind, said he was “lucky to find a place to hide” during the chaos when rubber bullets were fired by police at resisting occupiers.DA councillor Wollaston Labuschagne said:"I can confirm that neither the [provincial] human settlements nor the Ekhuruleni Metro Police Department informed or confirmed to me that the evictions would take place this morning.
"The majority of the occupiers facing eviction are female-headed households with minor children. At last count, there were approximately 700 children of school-going age." Many of the houses were incomplete and all stood abandoned and left to be vandalised. The occupiers claimed to have saved the houses from ruin. Some fixed up them up with their own funds.
"Coloured people in our community deserve to be given the RDP houses because they have been marginalised.
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