SERI: City of Joburg and JMPD defy court order in Kliptown eviction case

SERI media alert, 4 August 2010
Johannesburg

City of Joburg and JMPD defy court order in Kliptown eviction case

SERI is taking the City of Johannesburg and the Metro Police back to Court, in an application for contempt of a court order for non- compliance in the Freedom Charter Square informal settlement (Kliptown) eviction case: Zanemvula Nvobo and Others v City of Johannesburg and Others (‘Kliptown’)

** The application will be heard on Thursday, 05 August 2010, at Court 6E, SGHC at 10:00am **

Despite a court order handed down by Judge Meyer on 8 July 2010 in the South Gauteng High Court, following a settlement agreement between the parties, the City has not completed building a single one of the shacks. The order requires that the homes be erected within 14 days of the court order. To date, none of the homes have been completed (i.e. are not fit for habitation) and there has been no construction of the homes of four of the applicants.

Read The Star article attached. Contempt of court application, previous SERI press release and media articles available online at http://www.seri-sa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=12&Itemid=32

For more information contact:

Teboho Mosikili: 011 356 5866 / 072 248 2199 / teboho@seri-sa.org

Lwazi Mtshiyo: 011 356 5867 / 073 778 7960 / lwazi@seri-sa.org