HOMELESS AS THREE HOUSES DEMOLISHED AT NKOYOYO

MBABANE – Three families yesterday woke up with roofs over their heads and a place they call home but hardly five hours later, they did not.

This was after the walls of their humble dwellings came crushing down within a space of 30 minutes following a long court battle.
All that remained after the earthmover had done its work was rubble. At one homestead, which was constructed from wooden material, it was difficult to even imagine that there once stood a house.

At another, it was a similar incident as some wondered how all the furniture, which by then had been removed and placed outside, had been placed in these structures.

At the Mndzebele homestead, the roof tiles seemed to be intact as it covered the rumble of what was a white painted brick wall house. The drama, which attracted the attention of motorists and the community alike along the Mbabane/Ngwenya MR3 Highway at Nkoyoyo, unfolded at around 2pm.

Residents watched from a distance when an earthmover brought down structures belonging to Mfanuzodlani Nhleko, the late Ntombikayise Leon Dlamini and Mfundo Mndzebele. The order was in favour of Sibusiso Nsimbi Shongwe to demolish the structures situated on his land.

Shongwe, who was accompanied by his lawyer Zakhele Hlophe from CJ Littler and Co, also watched from a distance.
Shongwe pointed that out it was not his intention to demolish the structures, but he had no other option as he explained that he warned the owners of the structures even before they could clear the land, in the presence of his lawyers, that this was his land.

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