Lenasia: "Please, don't do it!"

About 113 houses in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, were demolished on 

Thursday and Friday ( Nov 8 and 9 2012).  The Gauteng Department of housing

said the properties were illegally built on land intended for government houses. 

Some of the owners weren't present when their houses were demolished

and others were literally dragged out from their properties.

A woman with a baby on her back stand waiting as 

the police and bulldozer approached her home.

She started crying hysterically as her house was about 

to be demolished.

A woman tried to stop a bulldozer from demolishing the house.

The woman who was standing in her house had to be dragged

from the property by the police.

Seconds after the owner of the home was removed with her baby

the bulldozer flattened her house. 

Neighbors stood crying as they watched the house being demolished.