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Residents lash out over demolition

December 04, 2007 Edition 1

PROFfESOR NDAWONDE

More than 50 children and 20 women were left homeless when their shacks at an informal settlement in Reservoir Hills were destroyed last week, apparently by the eThekwini Municipality's Housing Department.

Hundreds of Abahlali base Mjondolo (shack dwellers' movement) members were affected by the action.

Thabisile Ndlovu, 33, a mother of three children, including a 2-year-old, was among those left without a roof over her head.

"We are sleeping at my friend's house and there is not enough space for all of us. It a pity because we voted for this democracy, but we are being oppressed by our own leaders," she said.

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Basale dengwane bedilizelwa imijondolo

December 04, 2007 Edition 1

PROFFESOR NDAWONDE

Izimvula ezihambisana namakhaza kanye nelanga elikhipha umkhovu etsheni kuphelela ezinganeni ezingaphezulu kwezingu-50 kanye nonina bazo njengoba imijondolo abahlala kuyo eReservoir Hills idilizwe yonke nguMasipala weTheku.

Iningi lemindeni esale dengwane ngenxa yalesi simo yileyo engamalungu enhlangano eyaziwa ngokuthi Abahlali baseMjondolo.

UNksz Thabsile Ndlovu (33) ongunina wezingane ezintathu okukhona kuyo eneminyaka emibili ungomunye wabantu abangase bawudlele esigangeni uKhisimusi njengoba abamele uMasipala beshaya phansi bethi ababafuni kule ndawo.