WOMAN CLAIMS MAYOR MORERO AND HIS BROTHER WANT TO EVICT HER FROM HOUSE

The Nkosi family house which Mpho Morero now claims belongs to him

A 45-year-old mother of three kids Nthabiseng Pearl Nkosi of Meadowlands Zone 10 in Soweto, claims that City of Joburg Mayor Dada Morero and his brother Mpho Morero want to evict her from her family house in Meadowlands.

Nthabiseng Nkosi’s elderly mom who was alleged dragged out of bed by Joburg Mayor Dada Morero in order to force her to vacate the disputed house

According to Nkosi, Mpho Solomon Morero who works for Joburg Water, has been trying to get her to leave the house with the help of his brother Dada Morero the Mayor since 2014 up until now.

Community members helping the Nkosi family load their belongings onto a vehicle after they were evicted

“Apparently my aunt Beauty Nkosi sold the house fraudulently to Mpho Solomon Morero who is the brother of Mayor Dada Morero, and now the two Morero brothers want us out of the house as they claim that Mpho bought it from my aunt, and that it therefore belongs to him now,” said Nkosi.

Complainant Nthabiseng Pearl Nkosi of Meadowlands

“We have been evicted from our house by Mpho Solomon Morero several times and the first time we were evicted was in 2018 and Mpho and his henchmen came and vandalised the house and we lost valuable items like furniture which was broken, but we managed to return to occupy the house again by force through the help of members of the Meadowlands community,” she said.

“Mpho Solomon Morero then opened a case of trespassing against us for reoccupying our own house, but I also opened a charge of harassment and malicious damage to property against him, but my case was dismissed by the police who never gave any attention to it; saying it was not Mpho Morero who damaged our property and that he was therefore innocent in this matter,” said Nkosi.

“I was arrested for the trespassing case which was opened by Mpho Morero against me for occupying a house wherein I was born and raised; a house which lawfully belongs to me and my parents,” said Nkosi.

“Early in 2020 I won the trespassing case but on 5 August 2022 Mpho Morero came with his brother Dada Morero the Mayor to our house without police escort and Dada Morero personally threatened us, saying he will beat us up and actually dragged my sickly elderly mother out of bed in an attempt to get her to vacate the house but we refused to leave, and Mpho and Dada Morero then opened a case of trespassing against us as the family and I was arrested once again and sent to Johannesburg Correctional Centre ( Sun City) where I spent a month awaiting trial after being denied bail,” lamented Nkosi.

“But in my next appearance the Magisttate granted me R5000 bail and I eventually won this case as well, and am now occupying the family house with my children and my elderly mom,” she said.

Nkosi says in 2023 she opened a case of fraud against her aunt Beauty Nkosi and Mpho Morero in connection with the matter of her aunt Beauty Nkosi selling the family house to Morero illegally.

“The house belongs to my mother and not to my aunt Beauty and my elderly mother doesn’t know anything about the sale of the house,” explained Nkosi.

“Mr Morero’s lawyer, known to me only as Happy, also checked the documents used by Morero to claim ownership of of our house and found that they were fraudulent,” she said.

“The docket of fraud that I opened against Morero and my aunt Beauty Nkosi was subjected to a merry-go-round at the Meadowlands police station and I was suddenly told that the docket has been lost, but I fought until it was retrieved, though crucial information therein was missing,” explained Nkosi.

“It has come to my attention that a clerk of the court known to me only as Mr Solomon is in control and possession of the fraud docket I opened against Morero and my aunt Beauty Nkosi, and that he is the one who will apparently decide at his own time whether to take the docket to court or not,” lamented Nkosi.

“On 25 April 2025 Mpho Solomon Morero came with a group of Amazulu local hostel dwellers which is near our home and ordered them to occupy our house, thus forcing us to share our house with these men with the hope that we will leave the house out of fear but we didn’t,” said Nkosi.

“Mpho Morero and the Amazulu hostel dwellers then started insulting us and subjecting us to sexual harassment and when they finally left the house they took away all our belongings; literally leaving our house empty,” she said.

“My elderly mom is very sick and suffers from asthma and my ten-year-old son has epilepsy, yet the Amazulu hostel dwellers took away their respective medications as well as their clinic cards and X- Ray photos when they took away our belongings,” said Nkosi.

She said it later emerged that their belongings were handed to the Meadowlands police station officers who in turn handed them to Mpho Morero.

“Mpho Morero’s accomplice at the Meadowlands police station Captain Siwela ordered the police not to open any case for us against Mpho Morero and our attempts in this regard were ignored,” she said.

“As a family we were heartbroken by this scenario because we desperately wanted to open a case of theft, robbery and sexual harassment against Mpho Morero and the Amazulu hostel dwellers,” she said.

Nkosi said the community helped them to eventually open the case in April 2025 but even today they are still waiting for the investigating officer to brief them regarding the case of theft and vandalism that they have opened against Morero and the Amazulu hostel dwellers.

Nkosi lamented the fact that each time Mpho Morero opened cases against her the police were quick to arrest her, yet when he opens cases against Mpho Morero police don’t act against him.

“We are crying out loud as the Nkosi family for anyone out there to help us because we have tried everything in our power to rid ourselves of Mpho Morero and his brother Mayor Dada Morero’s harassment, but we have been failed by the powers that be, including the police and our own Ward Councillor Agnes Zazini,” she said.

When Tshwane Talks contacted Mpho Morero for comment, he said we are also harassing him; that the matter was in the hands of the court and warned us that we will hear from his lawyers soon.

He then asked us to furnish him with our email address and we obliged, but until now we are still waiting for a response from Mpho Morero himself or lawyers acting on his behalf.