Thursday, February 19, 2009

DA councillor suspended over Delft invasions

By Mikhaila Crowie
19 February 2009

A Democratic Alliance councillor has been suspended for allegedly instigating one of the biggest home invasion in South African history.

Councillor Frank Martin has been suspended for his alleged involvement in the illegal invasion of about 1700 incomplete N2 gateway houses in Delft in December 2007.

The National Director General of Housing, Itumeleng Kotsoane says in a statement that the Cape Town City Council’s disciplinary committee suspended Martin.

Kotsoane says the monetary cost of the invasion which lasted for three months amounted to more than 40-million rand.

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