The Building Control Department of Steve Tshwete obtained a court order at the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court ordering Lettie Tobogo Dos Santos, the owner of 35 Meyer Street (commonly known as the ‘Silver Gate House’) to obtain a certificate of occupancy within 30 days or face further steps.<\/p>\n
The move comes after the Building Control Department found that 35 Meyer Street is in breach of a municipal bylaw in terms of how many occupants are allowed on the premises.<\/p>\n
What was in that envelope<\/a><\/p>\n Video: Prostitutes \u2018fight over clients\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Video \u2013 (Not for sensitive listeners): House used by prostitutes<\/a><\/p>\n Sex trade booming in Middelburg <\/a><\/p>\n Update: Victory againts prostitution<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Everyone is buying sex\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n In the court order, issued on 7 October, Mrs Dos Santos is ordered to apply for and obtain the certificate before 7 November. The occupancy certificate however cannot be issued because the premises has not been rezoned from a residential house to a boarding or guest house.<\/p>\n Further steps will be taken if Mrs Dos Santos does not comply with the court order in due time.<\/p>\n \u2022 It was learned from a trusted source that in August, during operation Basadi, a planned raid at the said brothel was scrapped by a senior police official moments before it was about to take place. The reason given was that a similar operation was already planned. Three months later, it is business as usual at the house.<\/p>\n Read other stories here:<\/p>\n Best friends in tragic accident<\/a><\/p>\n Dam val 25 mm per dag!<\/a><\/p>\n Video: Hoop op re\u00ebn want on dam is leeg!<\/a><\/p>\n Weather for the week<\/a><\/p>\n Video: Nuut by Kleinbegin<\/a><\/p>\n Honde vergiftig<\/a><\/p>\n Video: Donkie gebore tydens ongeluk<\/a><\/p>\n Send a message to our SMS line 33658 or add us onto Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n Also check out our Video\u2019s<\/a> on Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone with the means to do so, is finally tackling the brothel problem in Middelburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":58708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}