SANDILE MOTHA
RETRENCHED Tongaat Hullet farmworkers find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Not only did these workers lose their livelihoods, but the KwaDukuza local municipality on the KwaZulu Natal north coast is now evicting them from the land which they have erected their shacks on.
The municipality says the piece of land is earmarked for low cost housing development.
Senzo Mtolo, speaking to Inside Metro on behalf of the retrenched workers said they decided to settle on the land after being evicted from the compounds owned by Tongaat Hullet following the unprecedented jobs shedding earlier this year.
“I’m a second generation of children in my family who were born and raised on the farm. I lived in the compound my entire childhood and as I became a teenager I was employed by the farm. Most of us never imagined that one day we would be evicted from
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