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

[konfab]

PRASA won the case.
Squatters to be forcably booted.
Yay!

Prasa has been granted a court order to evict residents from the Siyahlala informal settlement after they built shacks on the railway tracks in Langa.

The order was granted on Friday by the Cape Town High Court and the residents are expected to be moved to another piece of land on a farm in Stellenbosch Road, Eerste River ......

Court orders removal of shacks on railway in Langa

Prasa has been granted a court order to evict residents from the Siyahlala informal settlement after they built shacks on the railway tracks in Langa.

www.iol.co.za

Squatters got exactly what they wanted.

 

[Johnatan56]

didnt quite win, they need to be provided with houses and services (by coct/Province/national) and they could still refuse to move.
this order incentivises queue jumping, just invade a dangerous, highly illegal space and one gets free houses (emergency housing like TRAs prob) and better 'court ordered' services

Issue is police should have already removed them right at the beginning, they only get the squatters rights because it took months to act, probably because prasa never submitted a complaint.

 

[SAguy]

What happens if you go on holiday for a month, come back and there are squatters on your property? It sounds like the police aren't allowed to remove people once they have settled, and it then becomes an eviction situation.

 

[Johnatan56]

What happens if you go on holiday for a month, come back and there are squatters on your property? It sounds like the police aren't allowed to remove people once they have settled, and it then becomes an eviction situation.

Right now? Bad luck, you need to go to court.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Right now? Bad luck, you need to go to court.

And soon, any day now, you will loose your property with EWC.

 

[Currantly]

Issue is police should have already removed them right at the beginning, they only get the squatters rights because it took months to act, probably because prasa never submitted a complaint.

Logically, it shouldn't make a difference how long it takes to act on squatters, but the courts have made it so that you have to go through the whole eviction process, as well as 'provide alternative accommodation', for those who manage to 'erect structures' on your property.

 

[Rocco1]

Issue is police should have already removed them right at the beginning, they only get the squatters rights because it took months to act, probably because prasa never submitted a complaint.

48hrs - PRasa ran out of funds/ disorganised SCM - needed a contract with the red ants et al. Police dont do removals

 

[Rocco1]

What happens if you go on holiday for a month, come back and there are squatters on your property? It sounds like the police aren't allowed to remove people once they have settled, and it then becomes an eviction situation.

48hrs not a month

 

[Rocco1]

Logically, it shouldn't make a difference how long it takes to act on squatters, but the courts have made it so that you have to go through the whole eviction process, as well as 'provide alternative accommodation', for those who manage to 'erect structures' on your property.

equal or better alternative accommodation. cant put them in a worse situation

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

equal or better alternative accommodation. cant put them in a worse situation

SA is "pro poor befok", we might as well give up the railway system if we do not change this. There are thousands in line to also build on that piece of track. In China you will be lucky not to be executed for doing the same.

 

[airborne]

Issue is police should have already removed them right at the beginning, they only get the squatters rights because it took months to act, probably because prasa never submitted a complaint.

Apparently they popped up there during the lockdown which mean removals had been suspended due to the lockdown regulations.

Same as happened all over Sa including many up market suburbs, all now having their very own squatter settlements.

Is the lockdown enforced moratorium on removals still on place, surely not?

 

[Grant]

But the DA is promising free houses and services to people....

Where - source?

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

Where - source?

From my ass, still true though. I have seen the evidence, go look it up, this is common knowledge so you are just derailing the thread. Ask your PA to google it, not me.

 

[Grant]

From my ass, still true though. I have seen the evidence, go look it up, this is common knowledge so you are just derailing the thread. Ask your PA to google it, not me.

No.
You constantly throw out things as though they are gospel - making up crap as you go along.
Now when questioned you claim thread derailment

 

[Grant]

From my ass, still true though.

I fear you have been wasting vast amounts of money on toilet paper.
For years a years you have been wiping away at the wrong oriface.

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

I fear you have been wasting vast amounts of money on toilet paper.
For years a years you have been wiping away at the wrong oriface.

Clever speech this^. Still the truth though.

 

[supersunbird]

If I am correct, if you take down any structures within 24 hours, there are no right for the squatters to the property.

 

[schumi]

Court grants PRASA another eight months to relocate Cape Town Central Line shack dwellers​

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has been granted a last minute reprieve by the High Court in Cape Town, extending its deadline to relocate families living along the railway line in Langa.

When GroundUp contacted the rail agency earlier this week, it said that officials were racing against the clock to meet a looming deadline set by the Western Cape High Court earlier in 2021, ordering the relocation of the occupiers. PRASA said it was in the “final stages of the process and that any changes will be communicated to the relevant people including affected residents”.


Siyahlala informal settlement was established in 2016 on PRASA-owned land and then expanded towards the train station along the railway tracks. PRASA started talking to the occupiers in January and February to urge them to vacate the land.


On 30 July, the court granted PRASA an order for the Siyahlala families to be moved. The order stated that the families were to be moved by 26 November, and that the new site should have housing and basic services. The court also ruled that the families must be allowed to visit the new land at least four weeks before the relocation. Those refusing to be resettled could be forcibly removed.

More at: https://www.groundup.org.za/article...onth-extension-relocate-langa-shack-dwellers/

 

[Lupus]

I would've thought there was an easy way to clear it, have you seen what a train does to flimsy things?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

I would've thought there was an easy way to clear it, have you seen what a train does to flimsy things?

Criminals and squatters have more rights than ordinary folk,
or didnt you know that?