Wentworth community kicks up a storm over alleged housing corruption
Wentworth residents are up in arms over alleged housing corruption involving a block of flats in the south Durban area.
It's the second day of protests in a bid to get the Human Settlements Department to hear their concerns.
They claim the Housing Adjudication Committee isn't following proper processes in allocating flats.
They say people whose names aren't on the waiting list for the Austerville Drive units are being given keys.
Resident Celeste King believes the committee doesn't have the community's best interests.
"These people that are in charge they committee members, they take advantage just because they have power," she said.
They can do whatever they feel like and put whoever they feel like in the place and they have people that are really homeless. No really, really in need. They're all in the outskirts that do not have homes."
The residents say they've tried to contact the department but to no avail.
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KZN Human Settlements spokesperson - Mbulelo Baloyi says authorities will meet with the ward councillor and residents soon.
Some of the allegations they are mentioned were an official taking bribes.
but what we know is that the committee they complaining about, it seats everybody including someone from property management and someone from risk management."
"The allocation of the house in question was done through a thorough process where everybody was involved.
