Rubber bullets fired as over 2 000 people evicted from Nigel housing scheme

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  • About 500 families unlawfully occupying RDP houses in Mackenzieville Extension 2, Nigel, were evicted early on Tuesday.
  • No notice was given the eviction would take place on Tuesday, according to the community and the local councillor.
  • There were resistance and the police used rubber bullets.
  • No alternative accommodation, not even emergency shelter, has been offered to the evictees.
  • Lawyers for the occupiers immediately and successfully went to court with an urgent application to stay the eviction order. The matter will be heard on 3 March.
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Rubber bullets fired as over 2 000 people evicted from Nigel housing scheme | News24

About 500 families unlawfully occupying RDP houses in Mackenzieville Extension 2, Nigel, were evicted early on Tuesday morning.
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Rubber bullets fired as over 2,000 people evicted from Nigel housing occupation

Lawyers for the occupiers have subsequently secured a stay of the eviction order in the Gauteng High Court
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If any of you have been unlawfully infected from your unlawfully acquired home, please reach out for help:

Find Free Legal Support | Eviction Guide South Africa

South Africa has many options for individuals looking to find legal support for their eviction. These include Legal Aid South Africa, the Legal Practice Council, University Law Clinics as well as NGO Law Clinics.
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Phone:
(011) 814 5159
Address:
Kruger and Okes, 23 Kingsway Street, Nigel
Website:
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Those houses were built for specific people on a waiting list, so along comes a group of squatters and illegally occupies them then demands if they are removed the council must give them some place else to stay.
 
John Richard Webb saw the trouble coming a mile away and could hide before rubber was flung.
 
Lupus said:
Blocks of flats would be a better approach, never understood why they build 1 or 2 rooms single storey things, when you could build up and get more people into a block. I mean this is the communist way isn't it?
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Because the promised houses.

And they tried that in Durban. Crap workmanship made them fall down in a few years. Lemme see if I can get a streetview.
 
Kosmik said:
Because the promised houses.

And they tried that in Durban. Crap workmanship made them fall down in a few years. Lemme see if I can get a streetview.
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Yeah but they moan about the rdp houses
 
Lupus said:
Blocks of flats would be a better approach, never understood why they build 1 or 2 rooms single storey things, when you could build up and get more people into a block. I mean this is the communist way isn't it?
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Maintenance cost on commie blocks is too high. You need something that is cheap to maintain.

What is efficient is terraced housing like they have in the UK.
 
Lupus said:
Yeah but they moan about the rdp houses
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The buildings are actually gone or demolished, can't see them now. Was in Cato Manor with bright corrugated iron roofs, basically a rdp house scaled large to a block. Was around 2008ish odd I think but there were big stories about the shoddiness of the construction and if I recall, backhand tenders etc etc etc. Part of the Lipschuts scandal I think.
 
konfab said:
Maintenance cost on commie blocks is too high. You need something that is cheap to maintain.

What is efficient is terraced housing like they have in the UK.
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Ah yeah there is council housing in the South of Johannesburg, those do look a bit better.
 
Kosmik said:
The buildings are actually gone or demolished, can't see them now. Was in Cato Manor with bright corrugated iron roofs, basically a rdp house scaled large to a block. Was around 2008ish odd I think but there were big stories about the shoddiness of the construction and if I recall, backhand tenders etc etc etc. Part of the Lipschuts scandal I think.
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Ouch, the biggest problem with RDP housing is space, also it never looks like they attempt a garden so it's just red sand. In the old RDP houses built just before 1994 they were proper little houses, boundary walls, gardens, can see them driving down past Southgate.
 
The occupation has underlying racial tensions as the occupiers are mostly coloured former backyarders from Alra Park, while the legal beneficiaries are mostly black shack dwellers from Snake Park.
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This is the problem with the retarded concept of a "right to housing". The legal beneficiaries of the scheme are having their right to housing denied whilst protecting the rights of people who have broken the law.

The legal beneficiaries don't get legal aid, the criminals do. And every single one of the lawyers involved in protecting this "right" not to be evicted is intentionally denying someone else's right to housing.
 
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