Public Works takes legal action to evict ex-MPs from state housing

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has confirmed it’s taking legal action to evict former Members of Parliament who are refusing to move out of their subsidised accommodation.

Three former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party MPs and one former African National Congress (ANC) MP are reportedly resisting eviction from the parliamentary villages.

The department’s spokesperson Lennox Mabaso elaborates, “We can confirm that we do have these former MPs who have been resisting moving out despite the fact that they are no longer qualified or entitled to be in these villages because they are not serving currently in the present parliament. We have also informed their respective political parties. We engaged with them. Indeed, the respective political parties have said that the department should proceed with legal means that we are currently taking to evict these former MPs.”

Mabaso adds that their track record of rulings in favour of evictions makes them hopeful that the legal action against the MPs will bear fruit.

“We are expediting the process, and of course, we are hugely dependent on our justice system, but it has never failed us. You know, we just evicted people at the Union Buildings and evicted people at the Castle of Good Hope. We are continuing with everything. People who have hijacked and stolen our properties, so this would be the case, and our justice system has been responsive, and we do have hope and confidence that sooner rather than later we’ll get them out of this property.”