Chaos erupted in Motherwell on Thursday when residents of Endlovini informal settlement, Port Elizabeth, said they had been defrauded of over R150,000 by community committee members. They burnt tyres, blew whistles, and closed the busy Uitenhage Road.
Ward 54 Councillor Morgan Tshaka (ANC) met about 200 angry residents. They told him households had each paid about R200 for a plot of land.
There are about 1,000 shacks now in the settlement.
Mandisi Mabekanjani, who occupied the land in August 2018, said the R200 fee he and others paid was meant to be for the committee to hire a bulldozer to clear the bush for plots.
“There was a committee lady and a rasta committee member … They took my money … I cleared it [the bush] by myself for three weeks to get the plot … We don’t see where this money is going. There is not even proof that you had paid for a plot. All they did was write your name in a book and tell you that you’ve got the
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