This comes after over 65 families were left homeless when they were  evicted from the municipal flats in the city yesterday. The Free State Provincial Manager of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Thabang Kheswa, said in an interview with OFM News that the municipality agreed to hold off on the eviction for a couple of days. The SAHRC Commission made a finding in an earlier eviction-case in the  Free State that if the municipality enforces an eviction order, it is obligated to offer residents alternative accommodation.

Residents and their belongings were left stranded in the rain Wednesday afternoon.  When OFM News arrived at the Brandwag flats again Wednesday night, families- amongst them mothers with newborns, were waiting outside in the cold. They said security was refusing them access into the flats. At that stage, it was still unclear  what alternative accommodation Brandwag-families will receive ,or for how long the municipality is going to hold off on the eviction. 

Mangaung Metro Mangaung Metro EFF Councillor Baba Soabelo earlier described the actions of the municipality inhumane. 

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