The plight of Cape Town's homeless goes political

He was not consulted, he said, and he admits it was a burden no councillor in any suburb in Cape Town would willingly bear.

A fleet of buses had started depopulating the streets of Cape Town on Tuesday. The city’s new safe space in Culemborg under the N2 highway was evacuated and its residents moved out by midday. “The City of Cape Town must immediately shelve its medieval plans to dump homeless residents in marquees in the mud on the outskirts of town,” said Good Party secretary-general Brett Herron.

On Tuesday afternoon a “riot” broke out at one of the camps for the homeless inside the city. Social media users spread videos of people running and shouting and breaking down a fence. Chairperson for the Somerset West nightshelter, Jo Swart, denied that the 29 people who boarded the bus to Strandfontein were misled by her or her team.

“As much as we are unhappy about the lack of consultation we need to make sure the community is protected in the event of anyone jumping the fence. Badroodien assured the media that the city was not “trying to keep secrets about what it is that we are wanting to achieve here, about what we’re doing here”.

“You are asking me about public participation and I will offer to you there was no time for public participation,” said Badroodien. But when the media contingent arrived at one of the large tents where homeless people were standing in a queue for food there were complaints from the inhabitants about the conditions in the camp.

“The social workers took my baby because of the coronavirus. After that I had to stay on the street because I didn’t want to go without my baby. On Sunday they just came with the van and said, 'come come, you must go', but by force. We didn’t have time to take our clothes or anything. I’m wearing the same clothes and the same underwear, it’s not right,” she said crying as she spoke.Badroodien denied the claims.

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