31/07/2025
73 year old man's unpleasant life matter has now been referred to Social Development Department.
Mr Johannes Flink from Malmesbury used to live with his daughter just before he was issued with his own house. It is said that he moved to stay alone at his new house. However, the situation changed drastically afterwards. His daughter used to come check on him until one of his neighbors noticed that the old man was ill and turning blind. The neighbors took it up on themselves to check on him frequently until he asked them to come stay with him. According to the neighbors ,they made it clear to the old man that they were willing to give him something because his daughter had kept all his documents including the SASSA card nor was she buying him groceries or paying his outstanding furniture accounts but allegedly giving him only R200.00 for the whole month.
The daughter noticed that her father wasn't staying alone anymore and she decided to draw a monthly rental contract of R1000.00 which they agreed to. However that amount was also taken away from the old man. The contract had a suspicious stamp from the Municipality, which raised eyebrows which became quite concerning.
On the 7th of June 2025, the tenants were allegedly attacked by the daughter and had their property thrown out of the house during rainy weather. One of them opened a case of an assault and the police took their property back to the house and stated that she had no right to throw their property out without the eviction notice. It also appears that during the SASSA card renewals, Mr Flink had his own card renewed, and managed to keep it with him with the help of neighbors.
A Patriotic Alliance member, Irish Lee Peterson, intervened with assisting the old man and noticed something that didn't make sense, especially on the contract given to the tenants. First one is that on the contract it appears that it had only one hand writing including the signatures ,another was that the contract is said to be between Mr Flink and the tenants while the money goes to the daughter. The last thing was the law enforcement stamp that should not be on a civil contract without any original IDs as she never had tenant documentation.
Irish said she logged a further investigation to the municipality to find out who stamped the contract. However, the municipality has not given her feedback. Irish also mentioned that the old man asked her to keep his ID, Tittle Deed, and his new SASSA card as he was scared that his daughter could come and take all of it. Later at the end of June two days after pension day, Irish called the old man to find out if he received any money ,she was told that there was no money received from his daughter and she hadn't come for a visit as yet. She went to check if the money was paid on a new card and find out that indeed it was paid in a new card. She withdrew and told him for the first time in a long time he has his pension grant in full , the old man was happy even though he couldn't see but he was happy and asked Irish if she could pay his outstanding account and bought food groceries and nice warm sleepers for winter. She also went to check on his account that was in areas of more than R2700.00. She also asked if they could print out the statement,it was only after she got the old man on the phone to confirm it then the store send the statement straight to the old man's house and the installment R600.00 was paid.
Irish said it was so difficult to witness an old man crying because of this unfair treatment he received, and he personally agreed for her to assist on everything. After everything Irish said she posted on her socials to show what old people are going through.after all the effort she received a lot of calls and messages and even served with court documents accusing her of harassment.
Golden Voice Media spoke to Handriena Flink, who is an old man's daughter, and she denied all the allegations of mistreating the old man. She said that all these years, she has been looking after her dad, whom she referred to as her uncle. She said they had been living together for years until the old man got his own house and they had a good understanding even when the old man had moved out to his own house. She said things went ugly after Irish Lee Peterson took the old man's documents, including his SASSA pension card, and she was told by her uncle that an unknown person came and took his documents. She also accused the tenants of leaving her uncle with no food, including his favorite coffee. She also mentioned that she has been visiting her uncle every evening to check on him if he is doing well. She also mentioned that some other neighbors used to ask her if the uncle really eat his food alone in there that she used to bring,and everytime she opened the fridge she couldn't find any food but the bottle of water which meant that her uncle had some other people eating his food which is when she decided not to buy much food. When she was asked about people living with the uncle, she said those people came to her asking if they could come and live with the uncle. She maintains that the rent was mutually agreed upon. Three months down the line the tenants refused to abide with the agreement and that's when she went there to confront them to find out what seems to be the problem and they said they have been giving R500 to the uncle which the uncle denied to have received. She continued saying if those people living with her uncle were honest enough. They should have mentioned how often she came by checking on her uncle. She confirmed that those people who used to live with her uncle already left but they left nothing in the house but nappies which is surprising where was the food Irish bought because there was nothing left within a week. She denied the allegations that her uncle had an outstanding unpaid accounts and said that account is paid every month consistently and gives him R200 as his pocket money because he also buys food for him and said if these people are honest they would attest to everything that she has done for her uncle. She also said that even now, her uncle still doesn't have a heater this winter.
When she was asked about uncle's house tittle deed which appeared to be under the old mans name , she said they went to the lawyers with her uncle to sign some documents in case if something were to happen to the old man which authorities her name and her daughters to be there, which she has documents to prove. She accused Irish for interfering with something she doesn't know about. She agreed that she opened a case against Irish only because she only needed her uncles documents, which she said was taken unlawfully. When she was asked about the stamp on a contract, she said she is taking accountability of that because she misunderstood the court when they said she can make a contract between her and tenants however she stamped it at a wrong place and she said everything will be fixed.
Later on it is said that Irish-Lee Peterson appeared in court and the court decision ruled in her favor as the court stated that she was doing her duties as a community leader trying to help a old man she felt needed help which is a right thing but was cautioned on how she post on socials in future. Later on Irish also mentioned that the matter is no longer in her hands but its referred to social development and she gave all documents back to the woman who related to the old man that is now living with the him.
