Words like ‘invasion’ and ‘siege’ are the words of war. The City of Cape Town’s militarised language in the context of land occupations positions the City’s own citizens as ‘the enemy’. When law enforcement agencies use disproportionate force to carry out an eviction, the public isn’t surprised because that’s how enemy forces are met.
The fact of the matter is that the City of Cape Town has failed to address the housing backlog that has been in existence for years. Instead of addressing this issue, officials like JP Smith, Malusi Booi and Dan Plato are blaming the poor for being poor. It is very sad that we have a municipality that uses armed forces such as the Law Enforcement and Anti Land Invasion Unit in post-apartheid South Africa.
on the part of the government to deliver on the promise of a functioning state-subsidised housing programme.his context is exactly why unlawful occupiers were granted legal protection by the Constitution, and why the unlawful occupation of land was decriminalised in 1996. It is why PIE makes it a criminal offence to evict a person or demolish their home without a court order authorising you to do so.
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