New Horizon residents protest over housing

DISGRUNTLED residents from New Horizon in Pelican Park handed over a memorandum of demands to City officials yesterday, calling for poor housing conditions to be addressed, and an end to the demolition of informal structures and carports.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

The residents marched to the City of Cape Town offices, armed with their memorandum in which they demand that their carports and wendy houses, among other informal structures, not be demolished.

They also request that an unused road reserve, which has been utilised by residents, be formally allocated to them, along with a promise of geysers to be fulfilled.

The residents said they received notices giving them 60 days to demolish the informal structures.

They said the structures were built to create safety for themselves, their families, belongings and vehicles.