The man at the heart of the illegal sale of pockets of land in the Vaal has been arrested several times before but seems to be able to get away with his craft.
More than 300 beneficiaries of Gauteng human settlements' serviced stands programme are stuck with certificates of allocation and cannot start building after the land they were given was illegally occupied.
A group of residents who got involved in illegal purchases of land learnt the hard way after their houses worth hundreds of thousands of rand were demolished in Evaton, in the Vaal, on Thursday.
The company that owns the land on which the demolished houses in Evaton were built, says it had not leased the land to anyone and that more homes will be destroyed.
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