it turned out that title deed of house was in dead person’s name
October 29, 2009 Edition 1
MARY-ANNE GONTSANA – Cape Times
A GUGULETHU resident is at a loss after twice being evicted from the home she believes to be hers.
Deborah Booysen, 56, has been living at NY 99, in what she believed to be her parents’ house, for more than 13 years. It was only in 2007 that Booysen found out that the title deed was in the name of her neighbour’s mother who had died. Read the rest of this entry »
To: All media and civil society
From: Parkfields Community Representative Committee (formerly Newfields Village CRC)
Re: Condemnation of the latest postponement allowed by the state prosecutor in the case against C.J. Botman without input from our community
Trial postponed until 27 November 2009The people of Newfields Village, which currently faces evictions, experienced this injustice yesterday when the state, without consulting with representatives of our communties, accepted the final, final postonment of the case against C. J. Botman in order to accommodate the disgraced attorney.
Botman was ordered by the court to try to repay the money he stole from the attorneys fidelity fund to the tune of R400,000. However, the CRC did not have any say in Mr. Botman’s plea-bargain. Mr. Botman doesn’t only owe the state 400,000 Rand. He also owes residents about 2 million rand. But our needs are being ignored by the state prosecutor.
We strongly reject these arrangements and strongly reject this postponement. Read the rest of this entry »
We, the pavement dwellers of Symphony Way, have just completed our forced removed from the road into the relocation camp of Blikkiesdorp. However, during the past week, a lot of misinformation has been thrown around about our community by the City and in the media.
Firstly, we would like to make absolutely clear that there was not a single family from Symphony Way who actually wanted to move to Blikkiesdorp. It was reported in the Argus a few days ago that people were excited about their new places and the move was festive. This is of course not true. There is a reason that over 100 families actively refused to move to Blikkies for over 20 months. It was also reported that there were divisions in the community about the move. This is also untrue. We were merely having an extended conversation of our options: (a) pay exhorbitant fees at backyards, (b) go to crime infested Blikkies, (c) occupy unused land, occupy empty bond houses, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday we reported that the police tried to illegally ban our mass protest against the new Gugulethu Square Mall. After failing to ban our protest, they shot at us even though we were peaceful and the media saw that we were peaceful. Since then, a few details have emerged:
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