The state of hijacked and abandoned buildings in Randburg

A property is classified as a problem when the owner leaves it derelict for a period longer than three months. This has become a problem in Randburg north of Johannesburg there are visible signs of health and safety hazards starting to form like long grass, broken windows, things like that - that is when you start to identify that this is a problem and has the potential of becoming a problem property. TimesLIVE went to view some of this properties with DA councillor in Randburg Ferndale Emi Koekemer.
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[@ashleighwaterson9688]

Proudly brought to you by the ANC. Vote them out! #2024 #voetsekANC

[@MC-lq2iz]

Randburg of all places. I just cannot believe it. It was such a wonderful suburb.

[@ca9968]

Ferndale has been a dump for at least the last 15 years...

[@user-cb1so3oh5t]

Evict, evict, evict private security should set in to evict these illegal immigrants

[@cheznone9296]

Private security can’t evict. They will go to jail for committing a crime. The problem in the first place was opening the borders. ANC, EFF, owed allegiance to other African countries for their assistance to fight for the rights of black people, so that meant they could put their unwanteds on busses, planes,trains and get rid of their headaches. Now they SA’s unwanteds. Go figure!

[@BongaMotau-fc2eh]

Youre an illegal immigrant too msuuun

[@cynthiastrawson3316]

We moved from a couple of streets away from here over 20 years ago! The writing was on the wall then. So sad.

[@scottgordon1781]

Now you must provide other accommodation , let them go back , they had to come from somewhere ! If owners have left , seize the property in lieu of taxes . Place looks a mess since I lived there 35 years ago :-)

[@ca9968]

About the same time that SA was diagnosed with terminal cANCer...

[@hillis8380]

True

[@scottgordon1781]

@@hillis8380 and property values drop !

[@davidcoetzee7369]

So sad to see. 331 Cork is our old house. We sold it in 2018 when we moved abroad for work. So sad to see the new owner let it slide and abandoned it. 😢

[@nombusondlovu842]

Did you sell to a legal South African or illegal immigrant

[@echomike5097]

@@nombusondlovu842this is a dumb question. How can you possibly sell to an illegal?

[@shepherdkalinchenga9005]

​@@echomike5097he's trying to shoulder responsibility

[@admirekabasa7752]

@@nombusondlovu842you can only register a bond with papers

[@ranigovender3252]

Unbelievable..its so close to sandton. Saps needs to reclaim these properties and our laws are so stupid.

[@kevinmohoni]

What is sad is that this is all over South Africa. I don't know what needs to be done because conversations have been had but still no action.

[@velimasuku8808]

Its not even South African citizens doing this. SA is literally a playground at this point

[@kambrose1549]

A house near mine was burnt down a few nights after vagrants moved in. They are now taking it apart plank by plank brick by brick. The roof has already gone off in countless shopping trolleys. The law suits the hijackers and disempowers the owners with difficult legal requirements and delays.

[@annatjiekruger77]

Die wet moet verander. As onwettige "immigrante" in so 'n gebou intrek moet hulle verwyder word en teruggestuur word na land van herkoms. Suid-Afrikaners moet bloot net verwyder word. Ek is seker hulle het blyplek gehad voordat hulle besluit het om in een van hierdie geboue in te trek!

[@katmatlou]

Precisely!

[@ZeeJuque]

Can we also deport dutch settlers (boers) because they are not African these people have mo rights then a land stealing dutch

[@BongaMotau-fc2eh]

You must also go back to holland you illegal immigrant msun

[@annatjiekruger77]

@@BongaMotau-fc2eh Sorry to disappoint you but I was born in South Africa and therefor have as much right to live in this country as any other person born in South Africa.

[@BongaMotau-fc2eh]

@@annatjiekruger77 nonsense your illegal immigrant grandpas came here illegally so you are still an illegal immigrant foreigner 🤬

[@Amor-zone]

*Our Government Is Very Happy To See This Mess*

[@bee-sting]

There are also lots of hijacked buildings in Cape Town, that retirement home is infested with young people on drugs, living the dream, and homeless old people are suffering.

[@wandilebartman]

yoh where in cape town?

[@bee-sting]

@@wandilebartman southern suburbs, Rondebosch

[@wandilebartman]

oh i isee yho i didnt that here in Cpt we have abandoned buildings

[@S.S.Essess]

I grew up in Ferndale, house 403 Long Avenue which now is a complex, we sold when the developers came. We used to have the church and a sheeben over the road from us. We surprisingly never had any issuse with the sheeben. the house on long avenue you showed over there was always empty and had nothing. It was a few house away from a friend of mine. Used to be a great area used to cycle everywhere around there. I left Ferndale about 5 or 6 years ago to move closer to work.But if i remember correctly were quite few houses that looked empty from cork up to west.

[@etvscandalfanpage2011]

Can I ask out of curiosity since you mentioned thaysy there were a few empty houses. The empty houses do the owners sell them or they just abandon them?

[@S.S.Essess]

@@etvscandalfanpage2011 There was one house down long avenue where the lady died, luckily if i'm correct the land didn't get hijacked and later on someone took over and revamped it into a guest house. But why the rest became empty looking I have no idea, not sure if people just packed up and left or even possibly died. The plot next to 405 Long Avenue before it became a business complex was open land that was fenced off. For years they couldn't build on it until they got everyone off the land. The houses they showed at the end if i'm correct never had anyone in it. Think it's on corner of Long Avenue and Rocky St. They were always over grown.

[@colinhoward74]

Most of the properties owned by the gauteng municipalty are ones bought up in the 1970s when there was a plan to make a freeway through Ferndale to Sandton City area , the two propetries that blocked that project were St Stithlians College and the old Nestle House .

[@jennychurchill2716]

Interesting

[@lilipotgieter6263]

Currently 18 Highjacked properties in Menlo Park, Pretoria. Nothing done.

[@moseskatende9778]

Wow, Menlo Park was a decent suburb. Where are the owners?

[@jennychurchill2716]

😮

[@lazarusramaube8291]

I removed Tenants and Squarter from my place with relative ease.They threatened to sue just like the lady says they have rights and I told them their rights ended outside my gate.I further explained what would happen if they came back,problem solved without involving the police, some paid up and stayed on the Straight and Narrow while others relocated somewhere else for good.

[@nanasi9791]

Please keep on doing the good job by reporting the highjacked buildings

[@maropinini1262]

Obviously Gauteng Provincial Government doesn't need, use nor maintain these two properties in Ferndale, so why they don't publicly auction them off at a market price reserve? Government will receive money for service delivery, auction them off to the highest bidder.

[@RicksPhatPharm-vw2lb]

It's highjacked as in stolen... the city doesn't own it. You Africans must get out of the country, nothing here belongs to you

[@user-dp6qm1oy5i]

Its worrying, such nice properties .

[@valeriethorpe3399]

this is totally unacceptable... this is shocking

[@colinhoward74]

The problem with that particular property is that it is undevelopable due to a man made underground river flows literally just infront of the residencial building , so it has no commercial value for a developer , hence is has been abandoned . It was once a very nice upmarket house , sad to see its demise . It needs to either be demolished or restored as a residencial dwelling , considering its location , demolition is proberably the way to go , much like the property next to it on Bond St , that also turned out a white elephant due to the same reason . It is a problem that plauges all the properties through that dip till you get to the river just below Vale ave .

[@evocatus989]

Thanks for that

[@belindawilson1350]

Land those houses are on in that atea are large. That's a worry.

[@moderncasa2073]

Why can’t they clean at least 😢

[@bronwynnembe4159]

Cry my beloved South Arica cry. So sad to see our country like this

[@user-on7hb3td4k]

What our government don't understand is we can not do that in any county north of the border .and I mean in any county . believe me I have been there

[@jennychurchill2716]

Even in Zimbabwe?

[@ca9968]

Eish...South Africa is e-broken....

[@sizla8837]

That 1st house is literally 300m from us but there's another 15 more within walking and jogging distance

[@cheznone9296]

The mega problem is that the occupants refuse to be relocated. That is what the undocumented people do. You saw what a saga occurred in Pretoria where the inhabitants camped in an informal settlement outside the UN buildings. They were predominantly refugees demanding to be sent to other countries. Well once they were accepted as refugees in SA they cannot then decide well, our expectations haven’t been met here we choose somewhere else and we expect you to pay our fare into the bargain. Moeller I’m all for human rights, and if he people seeking humanitarian assistance would show that they are able to look after what has been given to them in terms of accommodation, instead of destroying everything in sight. If they tended the grounds and grew vegetables, and kept the area clean, then maybe, they would be seen in a different light, and become people that the rest of the country would like to assist. Ferndale was an upper middle class neighbourhood. Johannesburg is captured. It doesn’t take a blind man to see that nor a deaf man to hear it.

[@jennychurchill2716]

Bring in the bulldozers

[@Foodies0147]

But this building his next to randburg police station , how Is it hijacked

[@sipnog3528]

We want to buy these properties. Who is facilitating the process of reclaiming and selling them?

[@brianhoar1085]

Wonder which councilor or politician owns the security company? A million rand a year to so call guard an abandoned building?

[@falliblepossiblygullible2920]

Bruh. Why couldn't they sell, even for below market price? That way they won't be losing millions. They probably won't since they probably benefit from that(corruption)

[@latoniamoodley7562]

New government. DA please

[@KoketsoR7]

D.A said they will protect zimbabwes in this country????

[@latoniamoodley7562]

DA is still (always) better hands down. These other parties SUCK

[@latoniamoodley7562]

They are all SELFISH and GREEDY

[@Gismho]

"A better life for all" . . . especially if you are an undocumented immigrant.

[@ca9968]

It`s no different in Britain at the moment...

[@nomagcisacawe3297]

They unashamedly take over houses in a foreign country. Shocking.

[@doremi131]

Ijooo. I used to live in Ferndale, and it was such a nice neighborhood 🫢 Oh my goodness

[@johnvilakazi867]

Those are actually nice properties but just not worth all the hassle and I'm in property myself smh

[@madodasimelane2397]

This is what EFF support 😢 welcome to banana Republic

[@michaelbotes2084]

Very bad ass it took me more than one year to get "them" out of my property. The law is protecting them once they are in your property

[@lebzadlamini2844]

Same as in springs i wonder where the owners has gone

[@RicksPhatPharm-vw2lb]

They immigrate now look at the house? It can't be sold in this state. Prime example of why blacks must get out this country, it's not just our cities it's our farms and suburbs too. The colourds are right, you guys are the problem.

[@not.likely]

Strength in diversity

[@ajd8558]

But this is theft so why are they allowed to get away with it? Useless legal system in this country. And for the squatters: why do you have to turn it into such a mess? Clean up, keep it tidy, fix stuff if you break it, don't set fire to stuff, etc - it doesn't cost anything to do that and would make the people around you far more accepting of your presence there.

[@Noname_739]

Only in SA. Ironically none of them would even attempt such nonsense in their own countries.

[@vukosilarrykubayi5858]

Would like to make an offer of R50 000 to one of the properties

[@lndhmsh1608]

Why aren’t they being deported if they’re illegal immigrants? Where’s home affairs?

[@ghilmiclarke8672]

Het jy dan ‘n “Uhm” pill gesluk?

[@steveleroux6116]

Demolition time or drone strike!

[@obadiasegwape3277]

I always see this buildings in my hometown its so said and dangerous

[@joemaritz4744]

If the government do there work at the border will we still have this problem ?

[@jaystan233]

Exactly

[@hillis8380]

You can see clothe on the line those doek belong to the Zimbabweans

[@thapeloletoaba888]

They even have demands nice,when done can they have a look at cnr main & witkoppen the community there is growing

[@thulanidngubane8603]

Hijacked building in Roodepoort

[@user-qw2xm9he5e]

If they do illegal activities in abandoned buildings, they deserve if the building blows up or burns down.

[@demonlord5770]

The Immigration Act 13 of 2002 regulates lawful admission into and out of South Africa. It repealed the Aliens Control Amendment Act 76 of 1995. From then onwards, it was the main legislation controlling South Africa's immigration system.

[@leratoletlala7169]

And I am trying to buy a property in Kensington B and they told me that it's owned by government.

[@prano550]

foreigners again

[@spiegelknee-da-girls7309]

You'd be surprised. Most of these buildings are invaded by homeless South Africans who do drugs and are criminals .

[@RicksPhatPharm-vw2lb]

Black South Africans are involved, it's obvious... Nothing is going to fix race relations after this. Did blacks think we will live you for this

[@BongaMotau-fc2eh]

Your mother

[@prano550]

@@BongaMotau-fc2eh I slept with yours it smelt bad hey

[@tefomoqethte1874]

Can one buy these properties

[@harley1450ification]

Buildings were hijacked as early as the 80's. I saw it.

[@boerboel7777]

Rubbish!

[@tessapietersen21]

Informative video but please get rid of the so many annoying ums as you speak.

[@stuartadams2819]

Untended leafy suburbs become bush

[@sagrenreddy]

The owners, who left the property vacant in the first place and created the problem, need to foot the bill!

[@ruandupreez9491]

pay the bill for illegal immigrants hijacking their homes?

[@user-mp4ll7go7b]

My gosh this councillor is beautiful

[@robertschweppenhauser9891]

Nice house what they want for it .😅

[@cynthiastrawson3316]

Council when we lived there were rezoning the acre plots for med to high density housing. We sold as quickly as we could. Complex built on it!

[@cookingwithbeautybaking7526]

Mina nje angiyazi lento yovele ungene kwi property ngaphandle kwesivumelwano ama foreigners ayahlupha kona uhlalanjn kwelinye izwe for more than 10 yrs ungayi kin ai khona ayinhle neze lento yongogoduki

[@nomagcisacawe3297]

Not only "uhlalanjani" but usithathaphi isibindi sokungena in a property that's not yours in a foreign country?

[@life_of_wescott]

But what about the rights of the residents in the area who have to deal with increased crime and lawlessness? Funny how there are more laws protecting criminals, even illegal immigrants, over law abiding citizens...

[@demonlord5770]

You can invect them if they are illegal imagrants you ship them back from where they came from you guys really should start doing your work

[@michaeldeutschmann5992]

Good interview but please learn to stop saying um um every 2 seconds sorry

[@Evie-cx1sw]

Uhm uhm and uhm!

[@weymouthesterhuizen1145]

Thanks to...what political party....

[@jaystan233]

Anc

[@obadiasegwape3277]

Daai koekemoer ausi is moer mooi

[@manandomkhabela7136]

Karen isn’t mincing her words

[@wdb1872]

Mmm, mmm, mmm. 😎

[@user-ww5wi6bz7d]

You 2 u are not african