THE man standing alone against the eThekwini Municipality to try to represent a homeless shelter on the Durban beachfront, which was closed down over a decade ago, speaks to the Highway Mail outside the Durban High Court ahead of his first day of a scheduled nine day case.

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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.”

The Highway Mail will be following this case as well as getting input from other stakeholders when they are free to comment on what is now a case for the courts.

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