THE man standing alone against eThekwini Municipality, representing The Ark,  a homeless shelter on the Durban beachfront which was closed down more than a decade ago, speaks to the Berea Mail’s sister paper, the Highway Mail outside the Durban High Court ahead of the first day of a scheduled nine day case.

According to Munns destroying the Ark was not necessary and that’s what angers him the most.

“It was avoidable and it was heartless! It is a humanitarian crisis as a result of the abuse of power and a political decision to evict rather than assist relocation – and I owe it to pastor Derich: the trustees who asked me and also the 822 homeless: sick and dying people that in 2004 had nowhere to go but the Ark. I am doing it to rebuild the Ark and to make sure this type of thing never happens again in the 278 municipalities in South Africa.”

This is a developing story.

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