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Tiryville squatters evicted

Tiryville informal residents remove their belong­ ings after the municipality enforced a court order to evict them from the land they were illegally occupying. The land is earmarked for the building of a school. PHOTO: WERNER HILLS

CARA­LEE SCHEUN

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ENSIONS ran high in Uitenhage’s Tiryville informal settlement yesterday as over 300 residents opposed the demolition of their shacks.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality obtained a court order in May last year to demolish their shacks built illegally on the Tiryville land. They had a six month grace period to move from

the land voluntarily. The Education Department plans to build a school on the land. Police was sent to accompany the sheriff of the court, Pieter Le Roux, and municipal workers to carry out the court order yesterday morning. About 200 Tiryville residents waited with burning tyres for the police and municipal workers at the bridge in front of their homes. Police, in three Njala vehicles, fired rubber bullets and stun grenades. According to police

spokesperson w.o. Basil Seekoei, one protester was arrested. At this time the 50 municipal workers refused to continue with the eviction in fear of the protesters and Le Roux had to find more workers to continue with the demolition. Before the situation reached boiling point, local leaders asked for a last grace period. They were given two hours to demolish the shacks on their own. About half the residents then started demol-

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ishing their shacks. Two hours later the police and municipal workers moved in and homes were demolished one after the other. Many stood looking on helplessly as their homes of the past three years were taken apart. Accommodation has been arranged for a hundred people in a church hall and a local preschool. W.o. Seekoei confirmed that the police will monitor the situation throughout the night.

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