Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero and City Manager Floyd Brink must appear in court on Tuesday to explain why the city has not provided emergency housing for over 74 “vulnerable” families facing eviction.

The order, according to a statement issued by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), follows a 31 March high court order in the matter of Occupiers of Erf 74, Electron Township v K2012150042 & City of Johannesburg Municipality.

SERI is representing families from the Electrons informal settlement in Unigray.

It said the court ordered Morero and Brink to personally account for what the city has done, or is doing, to provide Temporary Emergency Accommodation, or TEA, and to state where the occupiers will be relocated and how.

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The 31 March order was granted after the city failed to comply with an

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