Single mom, five children face living on streets
(World News South Africa)

Kimberley - An unemployed single mother of five children, the youngest of whom is only three years old, is facing living on the streets after officials from the Sol Plaatje Municipality´s housing department threatened to evict her from her Hercules Court flat on Monday. This comes amidst a warning from the municipality´s internal audit that the local´s authority´s flat rental system is `critical`. According to the audit report, the municipality has no proof that a deeds search is done to ensure that the rental units are not allocated to property owners, while in one instance a rental unit allocated temporarily for a period of six months to a housing official has not been vacated yet. The...