Family home sold twice! Eldo’s

Joseph Mohamed is a forlorn figure as he makes his way through the streets of Eldorado Park Extension Eight.

Left destitute after a seemingly good Samaritan moved into the family home ostensibly to care for  Mohamed’s ailing mother. Little did he suspect that the events following his mother’s death would leave him homeless and the family home sold twice.

He looks wistfully at the empty house as he recounts how, after almost being killed in a fire at the house, he was taken to Baragwanath Hospital for treatment, he returned to find that documentation pertaining to ownership of the property had vanished.

The woman, known only as Maria, informed him that the fire had consumed all the documents in the house, including his identity document.

Employed as a mechanic at the time, he remembers returning home from work and being told that a shack was being erected outside as she intended on renting the house as a way of generating income.

He moved into the shack, only to be forcibly removed and taken to another place in nearby Boundary Road. Mohamed is visibly shaken as he tells how the house had been sold twice for as little as R40,000 with the previous “owner” leaving the property.

According to him, he has approached councillors for assistance, to no avail. Mahomed says that “I feel as though I’m being punished for sins I am not aware of committing”.

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