Justice and Labour Relations Minister Wise Immanuel has intervened to protect a vulnerable family in Ongwediva whose home was dubiously sold by their son-in-law.
The minister has directed the ministry's legal aid team to urgently assess the case and provide the family with funded legal representation to halt the eviction and further evaluate the legality of the disputed sale.
Last week, NBC News reported on the plight of a destitute family, which was given just seven days to vacate their home.
Minister Immanuel's intervention has now postponed the eviction.
The home once belonged to the late Riridis Kuutondokwa. Her grandchild and the grandchild's husband, a Zimbabwean national, however, then transferred the property to their name without the consent of the family.
The move has left the family of 26 in a predicament as they await the court's decision.
Family head, 66-year-old Ester Martin, says the family is thankful for the prompt government intervention, as they have no means to purchase and develop a new property.
"I am so glad that our government has intervened; it was going to be a challenge, as we don't have money for lawyers. Equally, we want to retain this ancestral land because I am a pensioner, and my children depend on me for survival. We don't have money to buy a new property nor to construct a new home. Those that sold this land must give back people's money, as we are not leaving this property."
The wife of the man at the centre of the alleged fraud, Jordan Mutatabikwa, says she only wanted to build on the property, but since it was not in her name, the subsidy could not finance her, so she opted to engage her late grandmother to put it in her and her husband's names, as she is married in community of property.
She says she did not authorise the sale of the family property and that her husband might have gained her signature through dubious means.
"I don't know who Mr Mushona is. I don't know who Taukondjele is, and I don't know how much it was, and I don't know which bank, and I don't know when. Things like that."