PennyvilleShutdown: 'Hand over title deeds within 7 days or face Gauteng shutdown' - angry residents | CannyMaphanga
While rubber bullets and rocks flew during service delivery protests in the streets of Pennyville, Soweto, a memorandum, calling for title deeds to the Pennyville flats within a period of seven days, was handed over to Premier David Makhura's office in Johannesburg on Friday.
Failure to respond within seven days would result in a shutdown of the entire province, protesters said."Tenants in the social housing schemes are facing, namely, the serious threat of being homeless due to financial challenges - as [a] result of unemployment and retrenchments - because of [the] badly performing South African economy.
"As a result, we request to be given ownership of the respective units that we are renting endlessly under the banner of social housing," secretary of the united social housing tenants committee, Thulani Khumalo, said in the memorandum. Pennyville is one of a long list of communities across the country that have taken part in a series of shutdowns aimed at addressing service delivery issues, just weeks before the May general elections.
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