It is possible to retain your humanity and still not want a vagrant to build a shack in your kid's playground, isn't it?
The recent High Court order that paves the way for the City of Cape to evict people from so-called ‘tent cities’ has been welcomed as well as caused a great deal of distress – depending on where you go to sleep at night. Most of us have never been subjected to spending a Cape winter in a makeshift tent on the sidewalk with only a cardboard box as a mattress, and therefore cannot understand the humiliation and despair, and deeper social issues that lead people to stay there.
feel about the move. After all, out of sight is not out of mind if you are the one having to ‘go away’. One of the residents is David, 33, who has been living in Vredehoek for almost 9 years. He fled his neighbourhood of Kensington due to ongoing gang violence. The city has been doing its ‘level best’ to offer care and help in getting people off the streets, according to Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.
The city has allocated R77 million towards social interventions and creating safe spaces for these people. A 3oo bed ‘safe space’ has been created in Greenpoint as well as a 120-bed facility in Culemborg along the foreshore. Whether the intended beneficiaries will make use of this is unsure. Some are doubtful.
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