Family home left exposed after aunt sells roof
Published: 2013 August 21 07:53:14 (4978 Views)
A family home in South Africa stands open to the weather elements after the aunt sold the roof for scrap.
Tebogo Theledi is desperate after her aunt removed and sold the roof of their family house.
The shocked 42-year-old woman says her aunt told her she was renovating the house for a family gathering later this year.
But Tebogo then apparently heard that her aunt planned to turn it into a guesthouse.
"She told me she would remove one side of the roof while we could sleep in the other rooms. I was surprised when she removed the roof and sold it to a scrapyard," says Tebogo.
She says it has been like this for two weeks. Her aunt kept changing her stories, saying she would bring the roof back at month-end.
Tebogo shares the house in Thokozo, Ekurhuleni, with her five kids and her grandmother, Thembeni Nkosi.
Tebogo said her aunt should have told her if she didn't want them in the house.
"She threw my clothes outside twice. We are now staying with neighbours, as if we do not have a place to call home."
Neighbour Melita Keleku (68) said: "No normal person would do this. Where are these poor kids and the gogo supposed to live?"
Councillor Sibongile Msibi said she had advised Tebogo to go to the police.
"I sent a community leader to speak to the aunt. She told him she would bring new roofing at month-end," she said.
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Reuben Maphanga said Tebogo could open a case of malicious damage to property.
- Dailysun
Tebogo Theledi is desperate after her aunt removed and sold the roof of their family house.
The shocked 42-year-old woman says her aunt told her she was renovating the house for a family gathering later this year.
But Tebogo then apparently heard that her aunt planned to turn it into a guesthouse.
"She told me she would remove one side of the roof while we could sleep in the other rooms. I was surprised when she removed the roof and sold it to a scrapyard," says Tebogo.
She says it has been like this for two weeks. Her aunt kept changing her stories, saying she would bring the roof back at month-end.
Tebogo shares the house in Thokozo, Ekurhuleni, with her five kids and her grandmother, Thembeni Nkosi.
Tebogo said her aunt should have told her if she didn't want them in the house.
"She threw my clothes outside twice. We are now staying with neighbours, as if we do not have a place to call home."
Neighbour Melita Keleku (68) said: "No normal person would do this. Where are these poor kids and the gogo supposed to live?"
Councillor Sibongile Msibi said she had advised Tebogo to go to the police.
"I sent a community leader to speak to the aunt. She told him she would bring new roofing at month-end," she said.
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Reuben Maphanga said Tebogo could open a case of malicious damage to property.
- Dailysun
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