Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has promised the residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement a reprieve, saying they will not be removed from the area to Delft."You don't come to people brandishing a judgment and saying move."
Sexwale said he was not defying a court decision, but that his own decision was to say "hold on, but I cannot implement the ruling now. I'm not moving my people until I've worked with them".
"we want to make this thing as humane and sensitive as possible," he said adding that the court ruling was an "activism judgment" and sensitive to the feelings and desires of the people.
He said the government wanted to correct its mistakes, and do the right thing.
Sexwale spent the the whole day interacting with residents, from Langa, Guguethu and Delft. At each visit, he was bombarded with a barrage of complaints, ranging from long waiting lists to defectd in government-provided houses, and corruption.
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