Land invaders strike when police visibility is low, City of Joburg’s Michael Sun says
The member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for public safety in the City of Johannesburg‚ Michael Sun‚ says those invading land have become more organised. Speaking after mayor Herman Mashaba’s state of the city address on Wednesday‚ Sun said that on that very day four separate land invasions were taking place in Soweto and in areas around Lenasia. He said land invaders moved onto unoccupied land at times during which they knew police visibility was low. "We are quite concerned. They now look at times where we have minimal police resources‚ over weekends and at night‚ and they do the land invasions. "Generally they are beginning to realise that we do have a limitation to policing resources. It is not just Joburg Metro police but also the South African Police Service. You find a situation where [land invasion] happens in the middle of the night …. We are finding a trend that there is an increase in the number of land invasions across the city. We are dealing with it as it happens. For...
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