Last Thursday evening Sibusiso Vumase was entertaining guests when he heard a loud knock on his front door. When he opened the door, a group of people carrying crowbars and hammers were standing outside demanding that he immediately evacuate his RDP house and find another place to live.
Vumase said they told him to go to Home Affairs to verify that he was South African. He said they left with his house key and told him they will be back to check his verification document.I immediately called Councillor [Tefo] Raphadu. He said he will call these guys and tell them to bring back my key … They came back with my key on Monday but they still wanted verification that I was South African,” he said.
The group proceeded to remove all of Vumase’s belongings out of his house. “I called the police and no one came. When I called again to ask why they didn’t come, they said they had sent someone and then dropped the phone.” But Malatji denied that the police had ever been called to the scene when the evictions were happening.
But Masimba said he refused to move because he was thinking about his children who were in Zimbabwe at the time. “What home would they come back to? I told them I have to wait for my kids to come back so that I can move with them.” Jabu has been forced to live in a shack with his 16-year-old son after he was also evicted from his RDP house in Alexandra Extension 7 in November 2018.
He said they started removing his belongings but he insisted on doing it himself. He loaded his belongings onto his bakkie and took them to a nearby crèche where he asked the owner to store them for him.
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