There is still no clarity on what will happen with around 200 foreign nationals who are now camping out close to the Cape Town Central Police Station.
This follows the group’s removal from the pavements at a church in the CBD a few days ago after law enforcement officials acted on a High Court order.
A number of people were however arrested when they tried to gain access to another church after their removal from Green Market Square. There have been no mass arrests as of Tuesday afternoon.
“We are sitting with individuals who have not named and identified themselves in certain cases, or where they have named and identified themselves have not given an address where they lived. So we cannot corroborate that the claim they make of being unsafe in that space is in fact true.
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