Sunday, June 12, 2011

Will 5,000 afrikaner squatters soon be homeless?

Fears that 5,000 Afrikaner squatters in Daspoort, Pretoria would soon be homeless were postponed again in the Pretoria high court when the infamous 'wendy-house' trial was postponed once again, this time to July 29.
The fate of these helpless squatter families could also become the fate of Pretoria's many tens of thousands of Afrikaners who have similar structures housing their poor and homeless friends and relatives in their backyards. If the ANC-regime obtains the court order to bulldoze such Wendy-House backyard structures, based on the claim that they are 'illegal' and 'unhygienic,' it could start a mass forced-removal of all the poor Afrikaners from greater Pretoria. Meanwhile the ANC-council does nothing against the millions of 'illegal structures' in the sprawling black townships. They are focussing on the forced-removals of tens of thousands of Afrikaners from greater Pretoria.


Tension remains high amongst the 5,000 homeless Afrikaners living in their backyard Wendy Houses at Daspoort smallholdings.
The formidable Boer woman who has taken on the burden of looking after all these people is Mrs Magda Stroebel, left, whose Angels at Work charity helps providing backyard-housing, food and retraining in entrepreneurial skills for this close-knit group, has spent the most of past few weeks in tears and prayer with her family, friends and supporters – terrified of hearing the Pretoria Magistrate’s court decision. Yet once again and for the umteenth time since 2009, the case was simply postponed. Thus the tension remains...
The Pretoria ANC-council is obviously running a terror-campaign in its attempt to get court-approval to bulldoze the neat little squatter community to the ground - and force its residents, including frail elderly people and the very young, out into the dangerous streets of Pretoria. And the worst part of it was that an Afrikaner building-inspector who has since resigned and moved to a similar job in Mosselbay, who has caused all this misery.
As the pictures below show, Daspoort's wendy-houses have been en home for them for years, they hold their church services there, try to grow their own vegetables in the neatly-maintained court yard and try to keep their children safe. This is in every sense of the word, a cohesive community where the frailest members of the community – the children and the elderly -- can feel safe from the incredible criminal violence which is wracking South Africa.

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