City of Cape Town officials have declared a Table View structure a problem building after the body of a man was found.
|||Cape Town - A man’s body has been found during an inspection at a problem building in Table View. The building now faces court action by the City of Cape Town.
The mayoral committee member for safety and security, JP Smith, said after numerous complaints from neighbours and about a year of non-compliance by the owners, a Mr and Mrs Dlamini, the city officially declared the premises in Lincoln Crescent a problem building.
The list of illegal activities included renovations without the council’s permission, no working toilet, operating an unsealed sewage discharge pipe, not complying with environmental and planning laws and operating an unlicensed laundry business.
Smith said if the Dlaminis did not co-operate or pay a R10 000 fine, the building would become the first test case in terms of the problem building by-law.
“We’re trying the very first prosecution in terms of the problem building by-law,” he said.
Meanwhile police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut confirmed that the body found was believed to be that of a Tanzanian national in his late 30s.
He said traces of an illegal substance, believed to be heroin, were found on the scene and in the man’s system.
Traut said the foreign national was allegedly employed as a security guard at the building site. An inquest docket has been opened to determine the cause of death. - Cape Argus