{"id":23687,"date":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=7a7a25320552a9fe493a1ecbf62093e9"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","slug":"south-african-police-evict-migrant-squatters-from-cape-towns-busy-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/south-african-police-evict-migrant-squatters-from-cape-towns-busy-square\/","title":{"rendered":"South African police evict migrant squatters from Cape Town’s busy square"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cape Town, South African police forcibly removed hundreds of migrants who had been squatting for four months on a busy Cape Town square popular with tourists.<\/P>
The eviction ended months of tension between the city and the migrants who had camped on the pavements of Greenmarket Square since last year following a spate of xenophobic attacks.<\/P>
Cape Town had sought an injunction after around 700 foreign nationals, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi occupied the sidewalks.<\/P>
A court last month granted the city the right to enforce its bylaws which prohibit sleeping, washing, defecating or cooking on the streets.<\/P>
On Sunday, police vehicles surrounded the area and hundreds of officers donning masks and gloves peacefully removed the migrants.<\/P>
Trucks followed and tore down makeshift structures where they had camped.<\/P>
Emotions ran high as migrants grabbed their belongs and walked away.<\/P>
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Source: Nam News Network<\/P>
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Cape Town, South African police forcibly removed hundreds of migrants who had been squatting for four months on a busy Cape Town square popular with tourists.The eviction ended months of tension between the city and the migrants who had camped on the p…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n