Joburg widow's home demolished six times since September

Tholakhele Nkosi digging a hole with just the head of a pickaxe to put up a support pole for her shack. The occupation of the former temporary Covid-19 campsite started in August last year.

The day before, she watched as the Johannesburg Metro Police Department , for the sixth time, demolished her one-roomed zinc home in Phumla Mqashi informal settlement in Rabie Ridge, near Tembisa. In August 2023, about 100 families, mostly backyard dwellers, occupied land off Modderfonetin Road, where a temporary shelter had been set up and fenced during the Covid-19 lockdown, in an attempt to de-densify informal settlements.About 1 000 shacks demolished in Johannesburg by JMPD, Red Antsit was an illegal occupation by people from as far as Orange Farm, Hammanskraal and Daveyton, who had heard the land was to be developed.

Mhlaliseni Khumalo, his wife and two children moved here when they could no longer afford rent. He has a disability and says the housing department promised to allocate him a flat in ward 45, but it never happened.I lost lots of material during demolitions … It is painful that the government is treating us this way when we desperately need houses."I have been voting all these years, hoping to get a house, but to no avail," she said.

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