The eviction of people from informal settlements in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria - where two men were murdered on Monday - has been suspended. This is according to Gauteng human settlements MEC Paul Mashatile, who met Hammanskraal residents, City of Tshwane officials and representatives of the local traditional leader yesterday.Suurman, in Hammanskraal, was caught off guard on Monday, when the Tshwane metro police, Red Ants and other contract workers arrived to demolish shacks the city said were built on illegally occupied land.During the conflict two security guards were killed. Roads were blocked and several properties were looted.Residents attempted to rebuild their homes yesterday from scrap .Those who could not find accommodation had to sleep outside, next to what remained of their homes.Following a lengthy meeting, Mashatile promised that the evictions would be suspended and that the provincial government would set up a standing committee to resolve the situation, which will sit for the first time tomorrow.Mashatile said the committee would determine who stayed in the shacks and whose shacks had been demolished, and attempt to return the land to the people who had occupied it."We want to make sure no others come. We don't want the community to mushroom," he said.Mashatile warned that there would be no "free-for-all" because one of the committee's mandates was to mark out plots.He said it was necessary to establish to whom the land belonged because it was unclear which land belonged to the council and which to the chieftancy.Joshua Ngonyama, Tshwane member of the mayoral committe for housing and human settlement, said housing was a human right and that was why the government had intervened.Fortune Mathabathe, who represented the community at the meeting, maintained that residents received no warning to vacate or time to prepare for the evictions."We never received information about the evictions."We were acting out of self-defence when people came to break down our homes and shoot rubber bullets," he said."We've been vindicated by the intervention of the government."A community member who identified himself only as Gideon said he was happy with the outcome of the meeting but warned: "You never know how the community will react."..