Nearly two years after she was hit by a stray bullet while inside her home, a Hanover Park oumasays she is still waiting to be relocated to a safer area.
Shereen Majiet, 55, says she lives in constant fear of the next bullet and wants out of the flat in Howick Court where she has lived for 46 years.
In October 2017, the soft-spoken granny was shot in her house while walking to the toilet.
“It was a Thursday night and I remember it was just before 11pm. The bullet came through the window and hit me in the face, I just felt my false teeth fall out,” says Shereen.
The bullet hole inside Shereen's home. Picture: Monique Duval
A year later she went for an operation to have the bullet, which had travelled to the back of her neck, removed.
“My jaw was split and the left side of my face is paralysed.
“I went to the rent office to ask them if they can relocate me to another council flat and they told me they would get back to me.
“In May I went again and they told me there aren't places. But every day I still look at that hole in my window and I am reminded of the day I nearly died,” she says tearfully.
Nearly two years after Shereen was hit by a stray bullet while inside her home, the ouma is still waiting to be relocated to a safer area. Picture: Monique Duval
But Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements, Malusi Booi, says although Shereen qualifies for a transfer the City cannot find a record of her application.
“The situation warrants consideration of a transfer,” Booi tells the Daily Voice.
“A written application with medical reports will be required for priority consideration to an available vacancy outside of Hanover Park, if so preferred.
“There is no available stock, but if the application is approved, the first available, suitable vacant unit will be offered.”