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Court eviction row over deaf domestic - Times LIVE
Anne Porter, who founded Anne Porter Properties 21 years ago, is chairman of the body corporate that wants to have Cordelia Norauzana removed from the block, Stellenberg, in Newlands.
Norauzana's tiny room - which court papers describe as a "refuse room" and "store room" - barely accommodates a single bed, plywood wardrobe and small kitchen unit.
Documents filed in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court chronicle the spat, which began soon after Porter became chairman of the body corporate, which applied to have Norauzana evicted last month.
"The said storeroom is, in fact, common property ... and (Norauzana) has paid no rental in respect of such occupation," said Porter in an affidavit.
But former body corporate chairman Colleen Higginbottom hit back in court papers, saying the 40-year-old woman - from Mdantsane in East London - had earned her keep by cleaning communal areas in the building for the past eight years in terms of an agreement signed by the trustees in 2001.
Higginbottom said that "significant animosity" had long existed between Porter and herself and that Porter had ulterior motives for the eviction application.
Norauzana prays that she will not lose the roof over her head: "I was so happy to have this place to live," she said through a translator. "It will be unsafe for me to live in the township here. I have no friends or family and can't speak to the people. I feel very scared."
Anne Porter, who founded Anne Porter Properties 21 years ago, is chairman of the body corporate that wants to have Cordelia Norauzana removed from the block, Stellenberg, in Newlands.
Norauzana's tiny room - which court papers describe as a "refuse room" and "store room" - barely accommodates a single bed, plywood wardrobe and small kitchen unit.
Documents filed in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court chronicle the spat, which began soon after Porter became chairman of the body corporate, which applied to have Norauzana evicted last month.
"The said storeroom is, in fact, common property ... and (Norauzana) has paid no rental in respect of such occupation," said Porter in an affidavit.
But former body corporate chairman Colleen Higginbottom hit back in court papers, saying the 40-year-old woman - from Mdantsane in East London - had earned her keep by cleaning communal areas in the building for the past eight years in terms of an agreement signed by the trustees in 2001.
Higginbottom said that "significant animosity" had long existed between Porter and herself and that Porter had ulterior motives for the eviction application.
Norauzana prays that she will not lose the roof over her head: "I was so happy to have this place to live," she said through a translator. "It will be unsafe for me to live in the township here. I have no friends or family and can't speak to the people. I feel very scared."