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Evictions loom for illegal low-cost home dwellers

June 01, 2008 Edition 2

Sibusiso Ngalwa

Thousands of people who have bought or are renting low-cost homes through the "black market" face imminent eviction. The government is poised to conduct an "occupancy audit" of all of the 2.6 million houses built since 1994 and to evict those not entitled to live in them.

Illegal occupiers either bought or are renting the state-subsidised houses from the original owners. It is illegal for the original owners to let or sell such houses for eight years.