Tshwane Municipality wants to turn hijacked buildings into student accommodation

JOHANNESBURG - The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality has joined other metros struggling with hijacked buildings.  

They now want to turn the properties into student accommodation.  

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The municipality’s bad buildings committee has been inspecting dilapidated and hijacked buildings that the government owns.  

With Pretoria having two universities, chairperson of the bad buildings committee Kholofelo Morodi said there is a need for more student accommodation in the capital.  

“We are engaging with the various universities in the city as well, but we are also backed by a motion of council to convert these buildings into student accommodation, so that’s the mandate we have.”  

Morodi said the first step in this process is to secure the buildings and ensure no one lives in them.