About 600 people, including more than 100 children, have been living in the church on Greenmarket Square since October 30.
A banner hanging outside Cape Town’s Central Methodist Church on Monday said the hundreds of foreign nationals taking refuge there were planning a “mass exodus” from South Africa.
This was after some of the people in the church rounded on a delegation of interfaith leaders and NGOs on Friday, who were pushed and shoved in a scuffle in the church. Others held the attackers back to protect the group. They had been holding a sit-in to get the attention of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees .
On Friday, police detained a group with the same demands when they moved on to the UNHCR’s premises in Pretoria.
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