The property in Wiggins passed to Mahomed when his father died. When the apartheid government told him to move, Mahomed stood in front of his home with his wife and three young children. He told the then Community Development Board in 1980 he would rather die than leave.
“When I got to the home, I explained to them that the property was ours but we were awaiting the finalisation of the land claim we’d lodged. However, they wouldn’t believe us.” As more people began arriving to make the property their home, the families that lived on the property, fled. Mahomed’s mother, Hafiza Bibi Nabie, 67, said: “When I was a little girl, I lived a road away and I used to come to this home for madressa. My father-in-law had built a madressa at the bottom for kids in the area. Later on, I married into this home. I shared the best memories with my husband and our kids. What is now happening is making me more ill.
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