'We are staying put': group that occupied old age home in Cape Town

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The City of Cape Town has tried to draw those living on the streets to its controversial temporary shelter in Strandfontein amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

But, a group of 60 people who occupied an empty old age home and are now living on the pavement outside the home in the shadow of Groote Schuur Hospital, told TimesLIVE they are going to stay put in their roadside tents.

When they were asked to evacuate in October 2019, they set up camp on a nearby pavement and have remained there ever since. The group has no running water, and make use of a single mobile toilet and a few tents donated by individuals last year.“We said to the officials, ‘don’t take us to Strandfontein, you can rather just give us tents to use here if you think we’re overcrowded.' But they refused,” she said, “so we don’t know from one day to the next what will happen.

almost completed the architectural plans regarding the redevelopment of the New Arcadia”, but that it had been put on hold due to the virus.

 

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