The City of Cape Town has relocated over 160 homeless people. (Supplied/JP Smith)
The City of Cape Town has relocated over 160 homeless people from the streets to transitional Safe Space shelters following the implementation of the Western Cape High Court’s final eviction order for various unlawful occupation sites in the Cape Town CBD.
Around 140 people took up the space offered at the new 300-bed Ebenezer Safe Space 3, while 26 were relocated to Culemborg Safe Space 2.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said some people were assisted to return to their homes and communities off the street.
“Others have left the various CBD sites of their own volition,” Hill-Lewis said.
In February last year, the court granted the City an interim order to serve eviction notices at unlawful occupation hotspots along Buitengracht Street, FW de Klerk Boulevard, Foregate Square, the central taxi rank/Foreshore, Helen Suzman Boulevard, Strand Street, Foreshore/N1, Virginia Avenue, and the Mill Street Bridge.
The homeless people were given a deadline to vacate by 30 July.
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