MBUYISELO BOTHA | Cape Town is known for being one of the most classist and racist cities. This comes through when speaking to black people living there.
On 14 April, judge Brian Hack ruled that 130 people in 49 households should be allowed back onto the land and should have their building materials restored to them."
How can one not believe this to be true when the city continually disregards the rights of the economically marginalised - as seen in the case of Empolweni residents and in its treatment of the homeless. How can one think any differently when the city maintains an indifferent and detached approach to governance?
The least it could have done was to wait for the lockdown to end. For the city to pursue evictions not once, but twice in the same community during a harsh period such as this is testament to the harsh treatment the economically marginalised, largely black people, are continuously exposed to due to their desperation for basic human rights such as shelter.
Knowing the reality of SA, it is infuriating to see the worsening of people's indigent conditions by taking away that which serves as their homes.
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