Residents not happy to share stands
Residents of Langaville have to share their stands with other people needing a place to stay.
It is clear that other residents in Langaville Extension three are not happy to share their yards.
The tension came after the residents, alleged of building their homes in a land that was reserved as business sites, refused to share their yards with others.
Ward Councillor of the area Clr Mthumeleni Nditha said residents took the land illegally and built their homes in 1998.
He explains that, after realising that many people are in need of a place to build their homes, the department of human settlement decided that the people who took the land illegally should at least share with others.
“Because those yards are too big for one family it is fair to divide the yards into two in order to provide accommodation for others,” said Nditha.
He claims that the furious residents demolished about 13 shacks in the area to oppose the division of the stands.
One of the residents who hoped to get his own share of the land, Freddy Malongwe, said the disagreement of the process by other residents is affecting him and his family.
“I have no place to live and finding money to pay rent is a struggle every month,” said Malongwe.
