Embattled families of Humerail, Port Elizabeth, moved out of their homes yesterday, a day before Transnet’s deadline for them to move today at 8am.

DA provincial housing spokesman Dacre Haddon visited the desperate residents yesterday to discuss their options.  Haddon said he was appalled that the premier and housing MEC had not yet acted on the matter.

“It is sad indeed. Although I understand that Transnet is fully entitled to evict these people after the court ruling, I am sure that if they applied their minds they could help these people find temporary alternative housing,” Haddon said.  Read the full story in The Herald.

Members of a financially strapped community on a hill overlooking Algoa Bay are mounting a last-ditch effort to fight an order by Transnet evicting them from their homes this week to make way for a commercial development.

The plight of the eight has been taken up by Ward 2 councillor Dean Biddulph as well as DA provincial spokesman on housing Dacre Haddon, who wrote to Premier Noxolo Kiviet this month, calling for her urgent intervention.  Read the full story in The Herald.