When Dipuo Koee left for work yesterday morning, she asked her mother to feed her seven-month-old daughter, Bophelo, and give her her flu medication.
Barely two hours later she was told that her mother, partner and three children had been evicted from her rented townhouse.
The Koees are among more that 50 families evicted from residential complexes in Honeydew, west of Johannesburg, yesterday.
The complexes include Honey Comb, Honey Grove, Honey Ridge, Honey Close and Honey Manor. The complexes are managed by various agencies, Koee's by Panda Properties.
Koee's mother, Dimakatso, 65, said she and the children had not eaten when their home was invaded by the Red Ants charged with evicting them.
Dimakatso brought her two older grandchildren, aged three and 10, to Johannesburg from Bloemhof, North West, on Saturday to spend their school holidays with their mother.
"Now the children are out in the cold. This is too painful," Dimakatso said.
The temperature dropped to below 10C yesterday morning.
Jika Property & Managers CEO Paul Lapham said none of the tenants evicted from the 21 units his company manages had paid rent since 2012.
He said an eviction order was granted by the Randburg Magistrate's Court in October.
"All [tenants] knew that [the evictions were] coming."
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