The Passenger Rail Agency of South (PRASA) has finally complied with an order by the High Court, compelling it to return building materials belonging to people sleeping on Transnet-owned land on Cape Town’s Foreshore.
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa has finally complied with an order by the High Court, compelling it to return building materials belonging to people sleeping on Transnet-owned land on Cape Town’s Foreshore.about 38 people from the land off Marine Drive. The group remained at the site, but their shelters were dismantled and confiscated. The group has been fighting this in court, assisted by housing activists Ndifuna Ukwazi.
One of the people living at the site, Juma Msomali, said, ‘They came here with a truck and offloaded broken planks and torn plastic bags. We cannot reuse them,’ ‘While PRASA did partially comply by returning some of the materials, they have yet to fulfil the critical part of the order—to reconstruct the shelters,’ he said.
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