Manenberg residents who have been living in containers for the last five months while their City Council flats are renovated have been left in limbo yet again. The subcontractors responsible for the renovations packed up all their equipment and abandoned the site last week.
The subcontractors, Good Hope Construction, say they left the site because the main contractor, Aecom, owed them more than R9m for work they have already done.
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