Attorney Jonty Cogger asked the Cape High Court on Friday to instruct the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to return the building material confiscated from 38 people who had been living on land along Old Marine Drive on the Cape Town Foreshore.
Attorney Jonty Cogger asked the Cape High Court on Friday to instruct the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa to return the building material confiscated from 38 people who had been living on land along Old Marine Drive on the Cape Town Foreshore.on behalf of the land occupiers. Last week, Ndifuna Ukwazi has claimed, PRASA attempted to evict people who have been living on a patch of Transnet-owned land for years.
He said PRASA did not dispute that it was on the site on 19 August. Cogger then handed in photographic evidence showing PRASA personnel on site. But the lawyer representing PRASA, Mukhethwa Nthambeleni, said that the operation on 19 August 2024 was a joint operation between PRASA, SAPS, the City of Cape Town, Sechaba Security Protection Services and Fidelity Security among others.
He said the property cited in the court papers was not PRASA’s property and it is not legally possible for it to evict the applicants.
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