City of Joburg to provide relief to Alex residents
The City of Joburg says it will provide relief to families who were displaced during Friday's housing demolitions in Alexandra.
Scores of illegal structures were destroyed by the Red Ants, leaving hundreds of families displaced.
City of Joburg Public Safety Disaster Management Divisional Head, Tshepo Motlhale says the relief assistance will be ongoing.
"We had to mobilise our units to ensure that there is facilitation of some form of relief to the displaced and as we speak right now, there is that relief assistance that is ongoing due to the level of desperation that is currently existing in the community,” said Motlhale.
"The City will provide relief assistance in the form of blankets and food parcels for households that have been worst affected by Friday's housing demolitions.”
Meanwhile the EFF in Johannesburg threatened to march to the Marlboro Gautrain station on Saturday morning.
The EFF's Washington Mokonyane says the march is to demand answers from the those that are responsible for the demolitions.
The ANC has stuck to its guns on the issue, saying people are not allowed to live on land illegally. However, they say the City of Johannesburg, led by the DA and EFF, are to blame.
Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Lebogang Maile, warned residents not to be deceived by political “opportunists.”