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Independent on Saturday reports that a bleak festive season awaits a community of police and others who live in a deteriorating 17-storey block of police flats in Durban.
The building is located between North Beach and the railway tracks leading out of the station and the officers fear being evicted on Christmas Eve. The SA Policing Union (Sapu) has taken up the plight of its members involved because police management has not offered them alternative accommodation. Provincial secretary Nurse Mdletshe claimed that police management has not been willing to enter discussions so the union has told its members “to just stay there.” According to management, the flats need to be renovated, but Mdletshe suspects there is an agenda to change the building into a provincial headquarters. At least 35 tenants are police officers, although over the years, other tenants have apparently “filtered” into the building through “gaps” in the system. Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane said not even residents who were active members of the service were allowed to live at Natalia Court and that the building was not in a suitable condition for human occupation and was a danger to all who lived there. He added: “The state is under no obligation to provide them with housing and the onus of provision of housing remains the responsibility of each member.”
- Read the full original of the report by Duncan Guy at Independent on Saturday
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