SA sits on time bomb as ministers collude on illegal RDP house occupiers

South Africans have the right to evict foreigners from illegally occupied RDP houses.

I’m not encouraging xenophobic violence, but poor people will be homeless for years if security agencies do not investigate this problem. The houses were built for homeless South Africans. About 50% of the RDP houses are occupied by foreigners as a result of illegal agreements between the owners and the occupiers.

The law says “no one is allowed to sell an RDP house” and the government has the right to seize the RDP should it be discovered that the house has been sold. lt’s high time the government takes action against the “new” owners. A former human settlements minister is alleged to own 17 RDP houses that she has rented out to foreigners through a third party. This information is five years old. I obtained it before I retired four years ago at the then National Intelligence Agency.

I wrote many reports about it but nothing was followed up on about my source’s information.

Many other illegals were arrested on their way to Zimbabwe at the beginning of the festive season for not having legal documents.

When we were in exile, we were legal there and we rented houses according to the local law. An arrest will take time to be executed because one minister knows the corrupt activities that his colleague is involved in, so there are many cases of blackmail being used so that this corruption continues unabated. Mpinda Skhosana Soweto