Some backyard dwellers squatting in Delft, near houses from which they were evicted, spent Sunday mopping up after being woken by heavy rain that seeped into tents erected as temporary shelters.
Community activist Beverley Jacobs said some families living in the tents simply fled, overwhelmed by the rain and prospect of more wet weather.
Last week, the city council announced that it would take another three months to move the 840 families who had been evicted from the incomplete houses meant for N2 Gateway beneficiaries.
This came after steep increases in the steel price meant that suppliers could not be paid prices at which tenders were awarded.
Millicent Leibrand, 36, who is seven months pregnant and shares a tent with her husband, two children and three other families, said she was woken in the early hours by a damp mattress and bedding.
"Rain flowed down the centre pole holding up the tent," said Leibrand.
Nokuzola Ludidi, 41, who shares a tent with her mother and three children asked, while surveying a neighbour's tent, "Is this a better life for all?"
"My mother is blind, paralysed and she doesn't have a wheelchair. I've had to move with her from Barcelona (informal settlement) to Delft and now here," said Ludidi.
Her mother, Margaret Ludidi, 78, said she had difficulty moving because of her paralysis.
City housing executive director Hans Smit said a team had been sent to Delft to help repair some of the tents. - Cape Times
Community activist Beverley Jacobs said some families living in the tents simply fled, overwhelmed by the rain and prospect of more wet weather.
Last week, the city council announced that it would take another three months to move the 840 families who had been evicted from the incomplete houses meant for N2 Gateway beneficiaries.
This came after steep increases in the steel price meant that suppliers could not be paid prices at which tenders were awarded.
| 'Is this a better life for all?' |
"Rain flowed down the centre pole holding up the tent," said Leibrand.
Nokuzola Ludidi, 41, who shares a tent with her mother and three children asked, while surveying a neighbour's tent, "Is this a better life for all?"
"My mother is blind, paralysed and she doesn't have a wheelchair. I've had to move with her from Barcelona (informal settlement) to Delft and now here," said Ludidi.
Her mother, Margaret Ludidi, 78, said she had difficulty moving because of her paralysis.
City housing executive director Hans Smit said a team had been sent to Delft to help repair some of the tents. - Cape Times
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