Lenasia demolition victims to have an out of court discussion

Imogen Vollenhoven
24 November 2012

 A meeting to discuss an out of court settlement for the Lenasia demolition case has been scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

Plans of a settlement between the Human Rights Commission and the Gauteng Local Government and Housing Department emerged in the South Gauteng High Court.

 It was also decided that there will be no further demolitions after more than 80 structures built on government owned land were demolished over the past two weeks.

Julius Malema has questioned the Gauteng Local Government and housing department’s plans to build low cost houses on illegally sold land in Lenasia.

Malema inspected the area on Friday and said there is no way that the disputed land was earmarked for low cost housing.

Cosatu's Dumisani Dakile raised the same point when a delegation from the trade union federation inspected the area on Thursday.

 This is not a place where you can build RDP houses this is just a fallacy which is meant to buy public sympathy by government.