Evicted families stuck in Paarl caravan park for a year | GroundUp_News
They were evicted from farms in the surrounding Cape Winelands, including Simondium and Wellington.
"When the day-campers leave, we go and check for a piece of meat or other leftovers so our children have something to eat," said Elsabe Goeieman, one of the people living in the caravan park.Her family, together with most of the families in the park, were moved to the New Orleans camp after being evicted from a farm in Simondium known as Die Blou Huis on April 11, 2018.
"It gets so hot inside in summer, so we would rather sit outside with the small baby. In winter, the wind blows through the holes in the tents and the tents flood when it rains and our things get damaged … There are also a few people with TB and living in tents doesn’t help," she said. "We moved here in April, so we struggled to get our children into schools. The younger children got places, but not all the high schoolers. My child would love to go back, but when I went in January, no one could take her," said Goeieman.
Billy Claasen of the Rural Farm Workers Development Organisation said the situation was unacceptable."The sewerage system is under severe pressure due to the influx of people there. People complain about the conditions there and no one listens." "An emergency housing project with improved basic services is being constructed in an area called Schoongezicht. Unfortunately, it was recently invaded by the surrounding community who refuse that the evicted people be accommodated accommodated there," he said.
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