By Sbongile Nonyana
A 60-year-old woman has been evicted from her house after her husband sold it without her consent.
Stella Nkoatse from Mothlakeng in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg, registered an RDP house with her husband in 1995. Because she was not working, she used her husband’s payslip, who was working at the time, to apply for a house.
When the houses were released that same year, she went with her husband to sign for it.
In 2016 her husband lost his job. He had been working as a driver for a company in Randfontein.
Stella said her husband told her to go home to Limpopo after he was retrenched but she refused. At the time Stella was working at Rhino Rescue, sewing bags.
“Our last born was doing grade 10 at the time so I told him that it would be better to wait until he finishes grade 12. Then we can go back,” she said.
Stella’s husband went back to Limpopo anyway, where he built a house with his retrenchment money. Stella said she never saw a single cent of it.
She was at work in 2018 when papers came to say the RDP house had been sold.
“I researched who the house was sold to and found it was sold to a person who was like family to us. We did everything together,” she said.
Stella said she filed a case at the Rustenburg police station but never got help.
So she took the matter to court – where she said her husband claimed he was not married and had no children – while they had been married in community of property and had four sons.
Stella said the court could not help her because the title deed was no longer in her husband’s name.
She held on, remaining in the house – but last month, on 31 August, everything changed. Relatives of the new owner arrived. They told her to vacate the house immediately and threw her belongings out onto the sidewalk.
She moved to a neighbour’s house until her children later rented her a place nearby.
Her eldest three sons are working. She stays with her last-born son.
Stella says that when she tries to call her husband, he does not pick up the phone.
When contacted by Scrolla.Africa, Stella’s husband, Puxon Mokoatse, dropped the call and the new owner refused to comment.
Pictured above: Stella Nkoatse’s belongings were thrown onto the sidewalk.
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