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Court rules against Ekurhuleni metro municipality

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The High Court in Pretoria has ordered the Ekurhuleni metro municipality to build 133 houses for the residents of the Winnie Mandela informal settlement in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg.

The court found that the municipality failed to provide residents with houses which had been built for them. The houses were instead occupied by other people due to alleged corruption in the housing allocation process.

Judge Mmonoa Teffo found that the Ekurhuleni municipality bridged the residents constitutional right to housing.

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute represented the residents in the matter.

“The community came about to engage government in different forums from the municipality, they went to the presidency they went to parliament, they went to Public Protectors office. In 2015 they took the matter to court as a last point of call. It has not only found out that their rights were bridged but it ordered the municipality to give them houses by 31st of December 2018,” said the Institute’s Director of Litigation is Nomzamo Zondo.

 

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