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Driving force USERFRIENDLY: The new computerised learn ers’ licence tests replace the former written tests at the Eastridge Driver’s Licence Testing Centre. Cirenchia Coetzee (23) is one of the first people to pass her learners’ li cence using the new sys tem. She says the ques tions are slightly more challenging than the written tests. See page 9 for more. Photo: Laila Majiet
Destitute warned to pay arrears LAILA MAJIET
A TERMINALLY ill cancer patient has 30 days to settle his rental arrears. The City of Cape Town’s red letter of demand was issued on 10 May, shortly after Peter Joseph (56) was diagnosed with cancer. His wife, Lea, says she received the letter addressed to her husband. The couple, who stay in Stag Crescent, Eastridge, is unemployed. They are unable to pay their arrears. Peter had been wrongfully diagnosed with TB at a state hospital earlier this year after complaining of an persistent cough. After two months, doctors diagnosed him with lung cancer. He is currently being cared for at his home after being discharged from hospital last week. Lea (52) says: “He is on morphine and cannot walk. I felt I could not show him this letter. He needs to get better without worrying about rent arrears. “(He is) a man who has worked for his fami-
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ly all his life. To see him like that is so sad. He was the only breadwinner. “He can only sit up for five minutes and I have to care for him so I do not have the time to fight with the City to make an arrangement for payments or the scrapping of our arrears. “We have stayed here for the last 30 years and have been paying rent all this time. It is time the City transfers the house to us. There is no income and I do not know what lies ahead for my husband.” Lea says even when he suffered from gout he still went to work to ensure that he could provide for his family. But he is now no longer able to do so. Ian Neilson, of the City’s finance department, says: “According to our records, Peter Joseph has never applied for Indigent Grant relief or entered into an agreement. He entered the Debt Management Process, on 12 April, and is currently on Level 3 (the first formal visit). His arrears stand at R 27 240,33 as of June 2003. The debt was accumulated since 1 March 1989.” April Engelbrecht, chairperson of the
Eastridge and Beacon Valley Residents’ Association, says: “The City operates like a business instead of working for the people.” The Joseph couple are not alone. Fouzia Bantom (40) and her sister Faiekah Philander (42) have been staying in Gazelle Street, Eastridge, for the last 29 years. The pair say they are struggling to make ends meet. They have been served a summons for R2 000 in rental arrears. Bantom says she has received a letter from the ITC Credit Bureau on behalf of the City of Cape Town for R25 560 for her water bill. Bantom questioned how this could be possible if her water has been on a trickle system for the last four years. “I was expected to pay R560 for rent. I have gone to the council offices seven times to submit an affidavit confirming my unemployment. Jobs are scarce. We survive on child support which we receive from the government,” she says. “We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place as we either pay our rent and let our children starve. Or we feed our children and
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try and make arrangements to pay the rent when we can.” Neilson says: “Bantom was in arrears of R27 850,50. On 16 May 2011 this was written off after applying for Indigent Grant relief. Her Indigent Grant and Arrangement was cancelled due to non-payment and she entered the Debt Management System on 10 November last year, moving to Level 5 (Summons) on 15 March 2012.” When People’s Post went to the Bantom residence, the house was in a state of dishevelment. The doors are falling off the hinges, the paint is peeling off mouldy walls and the ceiling is caving in. The City says the Housing Debt Management Department offers assistance to residents who qualify as indigent. The City says four of the seven steps of Housing Debt Management provide opportunities to engage with the City by the time they receive a summons. The seven steps are important notice, a letter of final demand, a house visit, a lawyer’s letter, a summons and a default judgment followed by eviction.
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