ESTHER LEWIS Source: Cape Argus
GYMPIE Street residents spent their third night sleeping in the street last night after a five-year eviction battle between them and their landlord.
Eleven people who were ordered – in a Cape High Court ruling – to vacate two dilapidated Woodstock houses with broken windows and no water or electricity, ended up in the street on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile the owner of the properties has offered to pay R10 000 a household to help them move.
Josephine Jones begged the owner, Dennis Robertson, to change his mind.
“I was born in this street, so were my mother and my children,” said Jones. Read the rest of this entry »
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