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NPO under investigation NETTALIE VILJOEN
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n estate agent for Wynberg Youth Centre has received a letter from the department of social development (DSD), requesting the sale of the property located at 59 Innis Road be put on hold pending the outcome of an investigation into the owners’ non-profit organisation (NPO) registration. In an email to People’s Post, Luyanda Ngonyama of DSD confirmed that the Wynberg Youth Centre’s registration as an NPO has been flagged as under investigation by its NPO directorate monitoring and compliance department. According to the department, the NPO has not submitted reports or audited financial statements since 2016. “The issue was escalated by a concerned member of the public to the presidency and the department has been requested to investigate,” says Ngonyama. Simon Solomon of Safcom Properties told
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People’s Post he received a letter from DSD but says the estate agency is going ahead with the sale. “I don’t understand the need to put it on hold. We have looked at the title deed and we don’t see any legal reason why we should,” Solomon says. Colin Arendse, a co-opted member of the Wynberg East Civic Association (Weca), disagrees. Arendse is the “concerned member of the public” who first alerted DSD to the matter. In his letter to the department, the paralegal wrote “a registered and compliant NPO may not dispose of any of its property/assets; neither may any of its office bearers benefit from the sale thereof. And if, for any reason, upon dissolution, the NPO decides to proceed with such dissolution, the property and all assets must be transferred to another NPO with similar objectives”. A community meeting was called at the
Vigilance hall in Bega Road on Sunday 12 January after the property was listed online a few days earlier. The ad describes the property as a perfect development opportunity. “The erf is large at 1 877sqm and can easily be turned into a residential development for the astute investor,” it reads. This is exactly what the community is afraid of. A People’s Post article (“Development concerns for residents”) published on 22 October described residents’ growing apprehension over the rise of apartment blocks on land where single-unit homes once stood. Ironically, these “concerns” were raised at a Weca meeting held at the centre. Yunus Karriem, acting chair of Weca, however, says the problem goes even deeper. Karriem says the centre is a beacon of hope for residents to keep the youth away from the streets, drugs and gangs. “The community gave us the mandate to oppose the sale and we have put together a
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