Residents living on CT railway line refusing to leave until land found for them

[Currantly]

CAPE TOWN - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) will head to court next month for an eviction order hearing in an attempt to move people occupying train tracks on the central line.

The rail agency served notices to people who built homes on the railway line in May. But months later they're still there.

The central line is the subject of a presidential promise, with the president pledging to get the key commuter artery back up and running. But the impromptu settlement, dubbed Lockdown, was throwing a spanner in the works.

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[TelkomUseless]

I don't see the problem.. just let the train go.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

viva Afrika

 

[dj2381]

 

[Zophos]

"The central line is the subject of a presidential promise, with the president pledging to get the key commuter artery back up and running."

Well, it seems that that particular train has left the station....

/I'll see myself out

 

[Ninja'd]

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[Laughs in Thai]

 

[ForceFate]

Another group of secessionists perhaps?

 

[TheRoDent]

[Laughs in Thai]

Would never work here, the schedules would be too unreliable...

 

[Flanders]

Oh they will move alright. Basically an "or else" type situation I'd say.

 

[Magnum]

Ill park a train there, Give the Engineer a good set of earmuffs and let the Horn BLOW!

 

[The Trutherizer]

Chancers. But hey... Weirder crap than this have been deemed perfectly reasonable in our country.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

 

[air]

decolonising public transport - Muppets.

 

[SoldierMan]

To quote the movie Enemy Of The State - "You are either incredibly stupid, or incredibly smart." In this case for building your home on train tracks.

Smart, because you knew that the government wouldn't be able to move you unless they found new housing, and the government would be desperate to move them (and so dish out new houses) given they needed the train tracks. Bonus would have been Covid with no evictions allowed.

And stupid because, well, you built your home on train tracks.

 

[Temujin]

Would never work here, the schedules would be too unreliable...

And they don't fit on the track

 

[ConfusedR]

Let the trains go through and see if they will leave or not

 

[Tokolotshe]

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I have this friend Koos who has a few. He's looking for a front business partner.

 

[RedViking]

Things are on track for them, I am sure.

 

[schumi]

Families living along Cape Town railway line to be resettled​

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Families living on the railway line in Langa are to be moved to two pieces of land in Eerste River and Stellenbosch, where the Housing Development Agency (HDA) intends to build about 2,550 emergency housing units “to clear the railway route and allow it to be operational”.

The informal settlement is preventing Metrorail from reopening the Central Line beyond Langa.


This follows from an eviction application by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). The Western Cape High Court granted an order on 30 July for the families in the Siyahlala informal settlement to be moved and housed.


Acting Judge Alma de Wet ordered that the families be moved by 26 November. She said they must be allowed to visit the new land before then, at the latest four weeks before the relocation. Those who did not want to settle on the new land would in any case have to quit the PRASA land and could be forcibly removed. The South African Police would assist the sheriff with the relocation process.


She ordered that the new site must provide basic services as required by the Constitution and that the housing must comply with the standard operating procedure of the Housing Development Agency.

More at: https://www.groundup.org.za/article/families-living-along-cape-town-railway-line-be-resettled/

 

[Vrotappel]

What makes these people so special that they get housing and services for free?