Herman Mashaba ‘ignores’ pleas for RDP houses, say Freedom Park residents
Residents of Freedom Park have accused Johannesburg executive mayor Herman Mashaba of failing to meet their demand for land to build RDP houses. In the early hours of Monday morning‚ residents of Freedom Park and Eldorado Park staged protests‚ blockading roads around the area‚ heavily affecting traffic‚ including the N12‚ Golden Highway‚ N1 and Union Road. "We have tried speaking to Mashaba to come and see the conditions we live in but he has been ignoring us and there is no going forward. As dwellers‚ we don’t have a place to stay‚ so we have been occupying the Nkomponi land since last year but police have been shooting at us‚" said Portia Mlambo‚ a resident of Freedom Park. "We also took a memorandum of demands on March 24 to Luthuli House and [ANC secretary-general] Gwede Mantashe took it and promised to respond to our memorandum in seven days but we are still waiting‚" said Mlambo‚ an unemployed mother of two children. She added that all they wanted from Mashaba was a piece of l...
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