Ses'Khona scored R330k from Lwandle plot-selling, evidence suggests
22 July 2014
The DA calls on the SAPS to act on emerging evidence that the Ses'Khona People's Rights Movement could have made as much as R330 000 from illegal plot-selling prior to the Lwandle evictions.
Affidavits submitted by the DA to the SAPS detail how Ses'Khona ran the operation in Lwandle, illegally selling plots of private SANRAL land to residents.
Ses'Khona sold these plots to residents for between R500 (according to affidavits by Lwandle residents submitted to the police), and R4000, according to resident Nomvuyo Mhlonyane, quoted in the Cape Argus on 6 June, shortly after the evictions.
We now know from the City of Cape Town's submission to the Lwandle Inquiry that a total of 660 sites were pegged out on SANRAL land for shacks to be built. This is according to information given to City officials on 4 January 2014 and then conveyed to SANRAL as the land owner.