On Friday, the LRC wrote a letter to the City, giving them an ultimatum to halt all evictions in the metro or face court action.
The Legal Resource Centre says it plans to launch urgent court proceedings in the Western Cape High Court against the City of Cape Town regarding its anti-land occupation policy.
“[It] does not address the substance of our letter and request for an undertaking that they will desist from evicting and demolishing informal structures for the duration of the lockdown. “We will now proceed with launching urgent proceedings in the Western Cape High Court,” LRC spokesperson, Thabo Ramphobole said in a statement on Monday.Ramphobole also raised concerns around the attorneys that the City had instructed to represent them which, according to the LRC, are the same attorneys the City appointed to conduct an independent investigation.
“These are the very same attorneys that were also on record in the earlier case bought by the LRC in the Empolweni evictions,” Ramphobole said.
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