Housing beneficiaries with disabilities in Cape Town are allegedly being threatened at gunpoint by illegal land grabbers, Enca reports.
Thirty plots from the Victoria Mxenge housing project, meant for people with hearing disabilities, have now been taken over by illegal land grabbers.
“Illegal land grabbers have threatened them with guns.” said Agnes Kunene.
“We told them that the plots are for deaf people, then the people took out their guns and told us what to do.
“So then the people who supported us are now scared for their lives,” Kunene said.
“And we as deaf people we can’t communicate with them because there would be a communication breakdown.”
The land invasions have also created tensions among Kuyasa residents, some of whom have been trying to stand up for the deaf community. But beneficiaries want officials to protect them.
“We need government and other organisations to see this because we have proof, we have papers, we have numbers for plots of our numbers for our houses,” said Vuyani Nomvalo, a housing beneficiary.
The Victoria Mxenge housing project has now approached the court.
