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Families’ 8-year battle for housing is over

The group living in a community hall in Cape Town have been resettled

Ntombekhaya Maputa is one of about 30 people relocated from the Luyolo Community Centre to aa temporary relocation area (TRA) in Mfuleni. The group had been occupying the community hall for eight years. Photos: Mary-Anne Gontsana
Families who were occupying a community hall in Gugulethu have finally been relocated by the City of Cape Town, ending a nearly eight-year battle for housing.
In 2018, a group of backyarders occupied open land in NY112. Their shacks were repeatedly demolished, and an eviction order was eventually granted by the High Court. Then, after heavy rains in June 2018, the group abandoned the site and moved into the Luyolo Community Centre in NY126.
At the time, about 80 people were living in the…

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