Msunduzi claims Jika Joe families were consulted before relocation
Msunduzi has denied claims there was no consultation with families at Jika Joe informal settlement who are being temporarily relocated.
Phase one of the project will see some 300 households being moved to another site for while low-cost housing is built where their homes are currently situated.
City spokesperson Thobeka Mafumbatha says those with some financial means will pay low rent, while those who can't afford rent will be placed in RDP houses.
"We have heard on the grapevine that there has been that these people were not consulted, which is not true. As part of the assessments that was being done, consultations did take place.
"They were aware that the construction is going to be in phases and this is the first phase of the project."
Mafumbatha says scammers have been using the project to prey on desperate dwellers.
She says structures erected on illegally acquired land will be torn down.
"They are normally people that would come to them, who are making them pay for the properties that does not belong to them. The land belongs to the municipality, it is not for sale. Some instances, people's houses have been demolished."
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