The Department of Public Works has won a court order to stop land invasions on state property in Vryheid‚ northern KwaZulu-Natal. Acting on behalf of the state attorney‚ Adv Dashendra Naidoo brought an urgent application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday after a group of people descended on a plot earmarked for low-cost housing. In his application before the court‚ the department’s property management, senior administrator officer‚ Zakhele Ndebele‚ said he had received information that sites were being pegged and demarcated on the property. "There was no permission given to any individual to occupy‚ peg‚ demarcate or construct any dwellings on the vacant land belonging to the Department of Public Works." He visited the property with the police on March 20. "I personally observed that the plots on the vacant land have been specifically demarcated and pegged, clearly with the intent to construct dwellings on the land. I was able to estimate that provision has been made for ...
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