adminRichard Muponde Gwanda Correspondent
Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has taken 22 of its tenants in Colleen Bawn to the Civil Court seeking their eviction after they failed to settle rentals. The 22 are part of people who are not PPC employees and are leasing properties at the company’s Khayalitsha Compound. Last year the tenants resisted attempts to evict them in the absence of a court order, forcing PPC to approach the Civil Court.
In summons filed at the Gwanda Civil Court, the cement company is seeking an order terminating lease agreements with the occupants of its properties. PPC also wants the court to direct the Messenger of Court to evict the tenants in the event that they do not vacate the premises on their own.
The company is also demanding varying amounts of monies from the 22 tenants for rentals, water and electricity charges.
An application against Spiwe Madzine and Jethro Mutsvanga, two of the affected tenants reads: “Payment of the sum of $123.68 by the defendant jointly and severally being the amount of hold over damages at the rate of $70 per month or $2.33 per day with effect from 1 January 2016 and by way of holding over damages to the date defendants vacate therefrom as the case might be. Payment of a further sum of $68.71 being accumulated arrear charges. Payment of a further sum of $38.93 being accumulated arrear electricity charges. Payment of a further sum of $89.32 being accumulated water charges.”
The company says it wants to hand over the houses to its employees who have no accommodation.
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