The City of Cape Town has been aggressively clearing homeless encampments across the city since a High Court judgment granted the City a conditional order to evict those individuals living at the Three Anchor Bay Tennis Club earlier this year.
Scores of homeless people were living on the grassy patch adjacent to and on the Three Anchor Bay Tennis Club courts. Picture: Armand Hough / Independent Newspapers
We were hopeful the City would take the opportunity and for once honour their commitments made in court and the basis on which their court order had been granted. Displacement of individuals living on the streets will come at a heavy price to both those being evicted and their homed neighbours. Mayor Geordin Hill Lewis keeps issuing statements saying the city’s evictions have been a big success. Adding that the City’s social development department staff are offering services and support to people living on the streets, but many are still denying the help.
International studies have shown that homeless evictions and displacements can take as much as 20 years off an individual’s life because of the stress and trauma they inflict. Homeless evictions are becoming more common across the country as politicians criminalize homelessness instead of providing solutions to systemic issues that cause it.The pandemic underscored the urgent need to overhaul housing policies, revealing that many homelessness initiatives rely too heavily on law enforcement rather than housing and social services.
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