Zuma View goes all the way to province

Deadlocks around the future of the Zuma View informal settlement in Bela-Bela were to be taken up with provincial authorities.

Mayor Jeremiah Ngobeni had engagements with the Zuma View leadership, and promised that the informal settlement’s future would be tabled with the Department of Co-operative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs.

Bela-Bela Local Municipality spokesperson, Kabelo Mosito, confirmed on Tuesday 27 November that the matter was to be discussed with the higher authority.

He said there were plans to fast-track the building of more RDP houses in the broader Bela-Bela, but that the land occupied by the Zuma View residents had been declared a flooding area,
meaning locals were to be assisted to access housing elsewhere.

In recent days the Zuma Concerned Residents (ZCR) chairman, David Moela, had said residents had taken a resolution that they would not vote for any political party in the forthcoming 2019
general elections.

The resolution was taken during a community meeting on Sunday 11 November.

Moela said residents had been allegedly ignored for the past 13 years, by mayors.

The incumbent Ngobeni is the ward councillor for Zuma View.

— The BEAT