GROUNDUP: Rubber bullets fired as over 2,000 people evicted ‘without warning’ from Nigel RDP housing occupation

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Lawyers for the occupiers have subsequently secured a stay of the eviction order in the Gauteng high court.

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Vridgett Webb, who occupied one of the houses with her husband and three children, connected water to the house and put in solar panels and a battery for power. “Outsiders were given houses and most RDP houses in our area were allocated to black people,” he said. “When the people moved into those houses they said they were safeguarding them against vandalism and would make way for the rightful owners when the time comes, but it seems it’s becoming a problem now,” says Mkwanzi.

 

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