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The City of Cape Town’s COVID-19 lockdown encampment in Strandfontein for up to 4 000 homeless people from around the greater city area. (David Harrison/M&G)
CAPE TOWN

The Strandfontein shelter touches a societal and political nerve

What was the City of Cape Town thinking when it decided to round up homeless people and put them in a camp?

  • Jonty Cogger
9 min read
High-risk areas are concentrated in townships and informal settlements, including Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Philippi and Gugulethu.
CITY OF CAPE TOWN

Khayelitsha residents ‘evicted twice’ during lockdown

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

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read