Land Invasion/ Informal Settlement Pellissier/ Lourierpark Bloemfontein

Remove Illegal land invaders & Stop an informal settlement of forming next to Lourierpark & Pellissier Bloemfontein.

The area was scoped for bank houses and not a RDP development.

This year another piece of land of the National Department of Public Works was invaded.

Only after more than 1 000 structures were developed and occupied next to Lourierpark & Pellissier Bloemfontein the Municipality, City Manager & Mayor showed limited intent to prevent further invasions.

The outcome of land invasions are community instability, deteriorating municipal financial and service delivery sustainability, the jumping of the queue to obtain housing opportunities, the ruining of housing projects and the creation of ungovernable environments. 

In the past, several municipalities in the Western Cape succeeded to stop invasion on their land. They did it through exercising relevant court orders and with the assistance of the Red Ants and the SAPS.

On state land, the National Department of Public Works could have done the same with the support.

All land invasions must be opposed without fear or favour of respective groups and cultures; and all measures must be taken to ensure that the people’s right to housing opportunities are protected.

All measures must be forced down to compel other landowners to effectively protect their properties from land invasions.

All measures must be taken to ensure that the utilisation of state land adheres to lawful and orderly conduct.

All measures must be taken to protect the right of residents and the our Counsellor  should fight for the rights of people who have been on housing waiting lists for decades.

We the residents will not allow the municipalities where it governs to be bullied into the provision of services to areas where the National Government failed to secure their land against invasions.

The residents will ensure the courts to force National Government to activate its interdicts against land invasions.

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