Rightful owners wait in vain to occupy homes

[caption id="attachment_34907" align="alignright" width="405"] LOSING HOPE: Daphne Malgas, 50, at her container home in Kamma Park, off Highfield Road, while someone else lives in her RDP house in Roos Street. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI[/caption]

THREE Nelson Mandela Bay families are demanding answers from government as to why their RDP homes are still occupied by others almost a month after they were meant to move in.

Schauderville's Roos Street housing beneficiaries Daphne Malgas, 50, Valerie Hart, 37, and Swaarbooi Mapoe, 52, have been fighting a losing battle since illegal occupants moved into their homes last month.

The three were meant to move into their houses at the beginning of last month.

But there was a protest on the day over who the legitimate beneficiaries were and this resulted in their houses being occupied by other families who are refusing to move out. - Mkhululi Ndamase