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Police chief warns politicians wanting to visit Blikkiesdorp

November 23, 2009 Edition 1

Caryn Dolley

Politicians planning to visit Blikkiesdorp, the temporary relocation settlement in Delft, should first let the SAPS know for safety reasons, the area's police commissioner has warned.

Issuing the warning, Commissioner Basil Vellai said the area was "a housing time-bomb" that threatened to explode and criminals were preying on the impoverished residents of Blikkiesdorp.

This meeing follows a series of anti-xenophobia meetings called by the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign. The police, who have often harassed the AEC, are now trying to take credit for the success of the sustained activism on this issue by the AEC.

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