South Africa: Evicted Durban Residents Say City Had No Court Order

Forty-five people were left without homes when the eThekwini Municipality's anti-land invasion unit demolished 24 shacks in Daytona River Village informal settlement in Lamontville, in the south of Durban on Sunday.

Zamokwakhe Hlongwa has lived in the informal settlement for the past four years. He said he lost almost everything during the demolition.

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