The minster said these groups take money and never do any work
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Tensions between the City of Cape Town and the police service over responsibilities mirrors the strain between national and local government
A fortnight after an early winter downpour, a recently established informal settlement comes to terms with the Cape’s hydromorphology of seasonal floodplains.
The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions
Cape Town Metro dismisses criticism that it illegally evicted people from a Khayelitsha settlement during the Covid-19 lockdown, arguing it was only demolishing unoccupied shacks