Located on what was until last year the Driftsands Nature Reserve, the settlement stretches from Old Faure Road to Mfuleni, just across from the Mew Way N2 off ramp. CapeTown
Worse still, the settlement has been flooded, knee-deep, in some places chest-deep, for two weeks now because of the heavy rainfall in the Cape.Located on what was until last year the Driftsands Nature Reserve, the settlement stretches from Old Faure Road to Mfuleni, just across from the Mew Way N2 off ramp. The Kuils River runs through the settlement and has breached its usual banks. Some homes, just metres from it, have had to be abandoned. There is also a dam that has overflowed.
The City of Cape Town said one of its biggest challenges are newly formed informal settlements ‘in dams, ponds and wetlands’. ‘We can’t move because we don’t have money to transport material or buy new material, let alone hire people to build our homes,’ said Mfati.‘We want the City and the Western Cape government to engage us on short and long term goals for this settlement … We want nothing for us without us involved in negotiations,’ he said.
But the City has stated, in a media release on 9 June, that it has spent 99% of its informal settlement grant funding, and Kubayi’s grant had been ‘received unexpectedly’ ‘on the eve of financial year-end’.
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