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ShareElderly, homeless Afrikaner couple Chris and Chrissie Knoll are constantly being shunted from their shelters by Nelspruit municipality – with teargas.
http://bit.ly/kFBVKU - “Municipality refuses to offer the destitute old white couple any alternative accommodation before their forced-removal from a local park … even though this is required by law…
29 April 2011 – NELSPRUIT - "After countless complaints by residents and the Lowvelder newspaper, the homeless couple Chris and Chrissie Knol were chased out of a shack on municipal land between the spruit and Ehmke Street near the Village shopping centre, ‘ writes Lowvelder newspaper journalist Ivan Geurtse. He reports that the impoverished, elderly white couple now moved a bit further down and are living under a pink umbrella on the next corner.
“We keep the streets clean, we don’t steal copper’…
The couple said they live outdoors, but whenever it rained, they used to shelter beneath a roof at the shopping centre. When they were chased off there with teargas, they erected a better shack with a single bed and a roof which didn't leak. However local residents, fearful that 'other squatters' would move in as well, demanded that the municipality 'remove the culprits’. Which they did. Their shack was torn down and the couple now are back to living out in the open, protected only by a pink umbrella.
(source: Ivan Geurtse)
Chrissie said the municipality has been forcibly removing them twice, and illegally, without offering them alternative accommodation. The Knoll couple said they serve a purpose; they are keeping the streets clean in the area. Other squatters further down the spruit aren't as useful: instead they are removing the copper from stolen electric cables, "they said.
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