By Celeste Ganga
19 January 2008
The Newfields Village Anti-Eviction Campaign is planning more protest action against the Cape Town Community Housing Company.
“The residents from Newfields Village and nine other villages of ‘low cost housing’ built by the Cape Town Community Housing Company already campaigned for years to force the government to allocate R46 million to repair the defects in their houses,” says Chairperson of the Newfields Village Anti-Eviction Campaign, Gary Hartzenberg.
He goes on to say that some of their grievances included: crumbling walls, leaks and cracks. Hartzenberg adds that the campaign included a massive and long running rent boycott.
“The Company agreed in writing with the community that the workers employed to fix the defects would be 50% contract workers and 50% workers hired from the community. They (Company) said that these will be labourers only - artisans will be hired from other companies” explains Hartzenberg.
The Cape Town Housing Company was not available for comment at the time the article was published.
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