{"id":110508,"date":"2025-05-16T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/?p=110508"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:01:28","slug":"drakenstein-veroordeel-pogings-om-grond-in-simondium-te-beset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/drakenstein-veroordeel-pogings-om-grond-in-simondium-te-beset\/","title":{"rendered":"Drakenstein veroordeel pogings om grond in Simondium te &#8216;beset&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit het die optrede van sowat 40 mense, wat onlangs &#8216;n stuk munisipale grond in Simondium probeer beset het, ten sterkste veroordeel.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die grond, wat naby die Simondium Prim\u00eare Skool gele\u00eb is, is geoormerk vir &#8216;n behuisingsprojek ter waarde van R77\u2009miljoen, wat na verwagting 384 wooneenhede sal lewer.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die projek is in September 2023 bekendgestel, maar vertraag weens pro- bleme met die omgewingsimpakstudie wat terug na die provinsie verwys is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Paarl Post <\/em>verstaan dat die nabygele\u00eb Simondium-begraafplaas glo in die omgewingsimpakstudie as &#8216;n erfenisteken ge\u00efdentifiseer is en die infrastruktuur wat met die behuisingsprojek verband hou, nie enige graf mag versteur nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die munisipaliteit moes op 29 April sy wetstoepassers na die gebied ontplooi toe die groep inwoners erwe afgebaken het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wetstoepassers het formele waarskuwings aan drie individue uitgereik en &#8216;n polisiedossier is geopen teen &#8216;n vierde betrokkene vir verskeie aantygings wat verband hou met aanhitsing tot onwettige grondbesetting en verwante klagtes,&#8221; het David Delaney, die munisipaliteit se waarnemende direkteur van gemeenskapsdienste, by navraag ges\u00ea.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" data-attachment-id=\"110509\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/drakenstein-veroordeel-pogings-om-grond-in-simondium-te-beset\/dsc_2042_44095\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSC_2042_44095.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,795\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC_2042_44095\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Die behuisingsprojek kom langs die Simondium Prim\u00eare Skool. 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Foto: Rasaad Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens een van die Simondium-inwoners, wat deel was van die optrede, is &#8216;n taakspan sedertdien gevorm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens hom het die inwoners, wat glo almal waglys-begunstigdes van die beplande projek is, &#8220;binne hul regte&#8221; opgetree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Daardie grond is deur die plaaslike skool aan ons gemeenskap geskenk om verligting te bring van die behuisingsnood\u2009.\u2009.\u2009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sedert 2017 maak die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit egter le\u00eb beloftes,&#8221; het hy ges\u00ea en bygevoeg die taakspan het &#8216;n versoek gerig om eersdaags met die stadsbestuurder te vergader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die inwoners se optrede het gevolg n\u00e1 &#8216;n terugvoeringsvergadering wat vroeg in April met die gemeenskap gehou is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Delaney het die vergadering inwoners ingelig oor die vordering van die projek. 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