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The City Reversed the Decision by the Ward Counsellor at Macassar Village

Early this morning Dan Plato who is the Mayor of the City of Cape Town was expected to go to Macassar Village to officially hand over the land to people of Macassar Village who had been sleeping outside at the open space for the past three days.

Instead of going to the area he decided to reverse the decision by the ward counsellor and ordered the Anti-Land Invasion Unit to demolish people’s structure, now as we speak people went back to stay on the street again and will continue sleeping on the street.

Abahlali baseMjondolo is declaring a war until people get beck the land that they occupied illegally, which the City did not have any legal grounds to evict people on that land without following the right procedures in terms of law. We are saying the City was suppose to follow the PIE act (Prevention of Illegal Eviction) and we note that the eviction by the City was illegal, therefore we demand our land back till the issue goes to the court.

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