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Roodepoort families find strangers living in their subsidised flats

Margaret Verland was allocated a flat in 2018. She is still in a shack.

Some families who were allocated flats in the Princess Plots development in Roodepoort found other people living there. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro

Three families who were allocated flats in Roodepoort’s Princess Plots project fear that their homes have been sold to other people without their knowledge.
They were all approved for housing in the project. Two were given flat numbers but found other people living there. The third family was never given a number.
The Gauteng human settlements department said this would amount to unlawful occupation but declined to provide information about the three cases.

Margaret Verland, 66, has lived at Princess informal settlement in Roodepoort, Johannesburg, since 1992. In 2018, she was overjoyed to be told she had been allocated…

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