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Wyntjie verdryf koue ’n Dag sonder wyn is ’n dag sonder sonskyn! Tygerber gers het die koue hokgeslaan met die eerste “We Luv Wine”winterwyn fees, waarvan TygerBurger die mediaborg was, wat verlede week by CapeGatewin kelsentrum plaasgevind het. Hier is Moria Cohen, Mickael Sadeh, Laretha Blom, Ashleigh Fontini (agter) en Valentina Radisic, almal van CapeGa te. Sien meer foto’s op bladsy 3. FOTO: CARINA ROUX
INFRASTRUCTURE ‘OVERLOAD’: INVESTIGATION TO BE LAUNCHED
Wallacedene timebomb DESIREÉ RORKE
T
he housing crisis in Wallacedene is a ticking timebomb. While the situation remained volatile for most of last week with a strong police and metro police presence to keep the peace, a host of other problems plaguing the township were revealed. An acute shortage of housing and an ongoing influx of residents from other provinces remain at the heart of this crisis. Damage running into an estimated hundreds of thousands was done to RDP housing last week; and approximately 149 trees were
uprooted from the sidewalks when 500 angry protesters from the Temporary Relocation Area (TRA), threatened some 17 families to vacate the new RDP houses recently completed in Wallacedene.
Didn’t qualify According to TRA residents – all shack dwellers waiting for houses – these houses were illegitimately occupied by persons who did not qualify for the city housing scheme. On Wednesday, subcouncil chairman Grant Twigg condemned the violent protests that started on Monday, saying that damages to city property were extensive.
A full report on the monetary value of the damages done will be drawn up in the next couple of weeks. “I accept that many of these complaints were legitimate and are in the process of being addressed, but condemn the manner in which the protests were done.” “There are open channels of communication available to these communities to address the issue,” he said during the subcouncil meeting. According to Twigg, subcouncil officials and ward councillors had a meeting scheduled with the community of the TRA on the same day the protests erupted.
“I now realise why they telephoned to postpone the meeting on such short notice. We also had a meeting with them two weeks ago during which I indicated to the community that all their issues are being dealt with,” he said. These issues included additional toilets, a water and sanitation plan that is ongoing and shacks that needed to be moved to higher ground due to winter rains. “Many of the TRA residents are not beneficiaries of the new houses in Wallacedene but basic services must be rendered to them,” he said. V To page 2.
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