DA seeks SAHRC intervention over KZN flood victims' housing woes
The Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal has requested a meeting with the South African Human Rights Commission over what it calls local government's failure to assist residents left homeless by the floods.
Provincial leader Francois Rodgers submitted a memorandum of demands to the Commission at its offices in Durban on Monday.
Dozens of victims are still waiting for temporary residential units six months after the devastating floods.
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Rodgers says the HRC should have intervened by now.
"I also requested an in-person meeting with the Human Rights Commission so that we can try and find a way to hold eThekwini and the province of KwaZulu-Natal responsible for dealing with the issues of the flood victims being housed and the collapse of the sanitation system in eThekwini and the response to date has been dismal."
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