The Johannesburg Housing Company has unleashed the Red-Ants on residents of Newtown Housing Village in Fordsburg.

This is the second group to be evicted following a similar incident over a week ago.

Gauteng South African Communist Party (SACP) secretary Jacob Mamabolo says the evictions are acts of corruption in which residents are supposed to be co-owners of the building.

He says they will be working with residents to make an urgent application in court. At least 150 people are said to have become victims.

Mamabolo says, “We are seriously disturbed by this. We strongly condemn the conduct, action of the Johannesburg housing corporation. We believe that they are very much insensitive and inhuman in their conduct. There are women and children, people with disabilities and we think this conduct is a violation of a basic human right of our people.”
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