South Africa evictions: Homeless people ordered off Cape Town's streets
South Africa evictions: Homeless people ordered off Cape Town's streets
Officials in Cape Town have won a court order allowing the eviction of people living in tents in the city centre.
The officials say they’re offering ‘safe spaces’ to the thousands affected — rights campaigners disagree.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Cape Town, South Africa.
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No human rights laws in Cape Town. Not enough shelters. South Africa has high unemployment rate. Food hard to get. Charitys dont give socks and underwear. Dont give tin food. Police inforcement of Cape Town breaching human rights laws.🇿🇦
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Oportunity in Russia with comunism. What are you people doing? Come to Russia we
have gold, Diamonds, oil, gaz and we need
population you don't even need studies to have a
more easy life than you have there. Also have
beautiful single blue eyed woman
Lies, lies, lies, where are they coming from so suddenly in big nr. Most are druggies. Why in the formal city. There are many bush eareas around suburbs. It's not on
Wow! Japan uses these shelters as well. The US just leaves them on the street. It’s a shame.. I wish there was a solution, I hate to see it
Cape Town breaching human rights laws. Go to court , supreme court in Bloemfontein.
Anc government to blame. Stop China flooding South Africa with their goods.
South Africans do not take care of the homeless and what they do offer is an insult to the elderly as well with "good news for the pensioners of a significant increase of R10 in October" The homeless are homeless for there is no job creation, businesses struggling and retrenching or closing down. Maybe with the world plummeting into a worse chaos and those better off who treat poor like vermin will be joining them this time next year. Many pensioners contributed to the building of of this country and economy and South African Leaders and other forget who enriched then buying there goods and paid taxes including VAT need to make a plan to assist them as interest goes up and SM crashes and price of basic food and other essentials continue to rise in costs. Basic low cost housing is a drop in the ocean to meet the needs of many INCLUDING those struggling in what rented homes they live in
Most of them are drug addicts
The city has provided shelter for the homeless which is good but the reality is that most of them prefer to live this way.
They must be forced to work and clean. They all just lazy druggies
The service provider for safe space 1 needs to be fired
Pathetic yet the people benefiting from this tender(safe spaces) pockets millions.
Sad
Homelessness is on the increase in the Western Cape due to unemployment and societal issues.
People from other provinces that come to the Western Cape to look for employment and housing are also seen as a major factor.
It is a sad reality for those affected by homelessness.
Conveniently not showing the shelters that have beds, support to get off drugs, reconnecting with family even helping with ID documents and employment. These people make up to R500-1000 a day and are living there to have accesss to money and supporting a drug habit. Effectively ruining tourism which if that goes most people in Cape Town would be homeless, it’s never good to remove people but we need to keep the bigger picture in focus.
Whoever is reading this, may God bless you Ameen, insha'Allah
We living the new world order laws of slavery and to DEPOPULATE the world 🌍.
The less people there are the more power these so called leaders will have
We are only puppets to them. Supply of drugs and alcohol is whats messing our youth and family communities
We should STOP THESE POLITICAL PARTYS and drug and human trafficking
Look at rent prices in Cape Town and you'll see why many former working class people are homeless. Cape Town is for foreign investment and tourism, the rest of us are fighting for the crumbs.
The worst place is by the castle, a national heritage sight, they rob people, break into the cars, use heroin in broad daylight which chases all the tourists away. Its not about jobs and opportunity when they were offered jobs and shelter but they refused as that means they cannot use drugs anymore, its just spiralling out of control but something needs to be done before beautiful places here in cape town dissappear like the castle.
The DA and ANC failed the people. And they still want to open borders for undocumented foreigners. Where are the people going to stay?
SOUTH AFRICA'S SOUL HAS BEEN SOLD TO THE RICH ELITES
There are homeless people in almost every city around the world 🙄🙄🙄🙄 nothing new here.
Activists with big mouths must open up their own homes
Look at how they making a mess.. get them off the roads. Drug addicts and criminals man. We got the same prob in kzn.
WHERE ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO GO?!?
Cape Town homelessness is a problem. I mean most people who are on the streets ran away from crimes they've committed in their neighborhoods. Unemployment is not really a problem, asked them to go back to their families, none of them will agree. Especially those who are capetonians. They just want to be outside. Cape town is the only state with most shelters throughout SA and they help if you want to be helped. People love drugs, begging and robbing people. If Shelters locks gates at 6pm, how are they gonna smoke and rob innocent people
Where the DA governs
And yet the mansions of Camps Bay stand empty 11 months of the year. Weird world we live in.
Al Jazeera has an agenda against the well run province and city of Cape Town. This slanted reportage exemplifies that.
Rate payers and those who pay taxes have rights too, which includes safe and clean streets. Plenty of shelters are offered all over the city and are constantly expanded.
The city also has far more employment opportunities than the rest of the country because the city of Cape Town works hard to keep it functional. This draws in foreign investment and tourists. If you visit the city centre of Johannesburg, Durban or Pretoria you will notice the degradation. Oddly enough, Al Jazeera doesn't report on those cities.
The white people stole all their land? return the lands to the indigenous and go back to europe.
If you have ten fingers and ten with the ability to be high or drunk everyday
That's lazy not homeless
South Africa has the wealthy and the poor in all races, its all over the world, my neighbour is black they live upper class lives , across the road are flats they occupied mainly by black people, they drive cars and no A Car
Come to San Diego
Thanks a lot Africa National congress
Humans and rats share space together it's a health hazard wa isi city se safety inspectors
The Democratic Alliance government provides no housing for the poor; all they do is impress tourists, while inequality grows year after year.
The working class can be barely survive the skyrocketing prices of homes and rentals and the nature of the city favours people who are wealthy instead of the actual capetonians. I will not mention the neglected townships and Cape Flats, which are rife with crime, because the DA government is fixated on the elite and is selling their own voters to the dogs.
The DA continues to blame the ANC, but they are the cause. The ANC is corrupt, but they do not run Cape Town, which is infested with corruption.
Most are from the Eastern Cape, the poorest province in SA
When will Al Jaazera ecpose prostitution, poverty, child labour and homelessness in the Middle East?
Forefathers take Land and their offspring want you off the street…Where a person of colour goes a person of colour suffers.
Poverty is a symptom of money and social standards. Throughout history there have been groups of people who help each other so everyone has food and shelter, but there have also been very poor in some places. There is nowhere for most poor people to go because of land ownership. Something needs to change from within because all people are valuable.
Hypocritical human rights folks make this whole situation worse.