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People living in temporary housing in Braelyn, East London, say they have tried everything they can think of to get the municipality to keep a 2013 promise to move them.
“We are going to prevent them adding more shelters until they move us to the houses they promised us six years ago,” he said. “The first year we didn’t have electricity. We had to write letters to the Mayor’s office and protest before they started taking us seriously,” said Zweni. He said they had first written to Mayor Zukiswa Ncitha and the housing department in September 2013. A meeting between Human Settlement officials, including Mhlola, was held on an open field next to the temporary shelters in September 2013.
“That was in 2014 just before the national elections,” said Zweni. He said officials had told protesters to wait until after the elections. “We waited but nothing was done to help us.”So the residents wrote again, this time to former mayor Alfred Mtsi, then speaker of the municipality. The response they received from his office was that their area was not on the housing budget.
“We have tried everything with no luck. We were used to campaign for the ANC to win this ward, and we delivered, they won the ward but that was for nothing,” he said.
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