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The Herald

Knives out in protest against councillor

Mawande Jack POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

A MOTHERWELL councillor‘s assistant allegedly stabbed a resident during a protest at the weekend, in a fracas the councillor says was due to him not being duly “notified” of the demonstration.

A charge has also been laid by an elderly woman who says Ward 54 councillor Likhaya Matebese swore at her.

Matebese, chairman of the Motherwell councillors, alleged yesterday that his assistant acted in retaliation. “My assistant was attacked and stabbed by them earlier. He came to my house bleeding and was immediately rushed to hospital.

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The Herald 6/5/2008

Municipal officials held in funds drama released

Mawande Jack POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

A HOSTAGE drama in which municipal officials were locked inside the Motherwell Urban Renewal Project (Murp) offices by angry residents overnight ended yesterday morning.

The residents said the next target would be councillors, whom they claim enriched themselves from the project.

Seven Motherwell councillors were mentioned as being responsible for the failure of the billion-rand presidential project to benefit local residents.

The Herald 2/4/2008

Shack dwellers upset over delays in RDP housing completion

Katherine Wilkinson GARDEN ROUTE CORRESPONDENT

PROSPECTIVE RDP housing recipients in Mossel Bay remain extremely unhappy and anxious about the lack of building progress, even after a meeting was held on Monday night in an attempt to alleviate the situation.

Community members broke down their shacks in June and July last year as requested to make space for RDP houses. Families then constructed smaller, temporary, one-room shacks on the edges of the stands, to have somewhere to live while their RDP houses were being built.

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Shack builders clash with security firm‘s demolishers

Khetile Thomas and Janine Oelofse GARDEN ROUTE CORRESPONDENTS

A GROUP of Plettenberg Bay township residents yesterday clashed with members of a private security company contracted to break down their illegal shacks.

The shacks were built in an area the Bitou municipality has earmarked for industrial development.

About 30 KwaNokuthula residents threw stones at a truck belonging to the company while eight security employees dismantled the handful of shacks that had been built since Friday in Phola Park.

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The Herald 20 Feb 2006

Minister demands probe of Uitenhage house seizures

By Francois Rank Chief Reporter

HOUSING Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has commissioned a special investigation
into the possibly illegal and unconstitutional seizure and sale of
State-subsidised houses in Uitenhage revealed by The Herald last week.

Sisulu launched the probe in reaction to a report in The Herald on Friday
that residents in the destitute area of Tiryville have been fighting an
ongoing battle with Uitenhage law firm Lessing Heyns and Co after their