About 200 refugees spent the night in a park on the outskirts of the Cape Town CBD after being removed from Greenmarket Square by law enforcement officials on Sunday.
The UNHCR had advised previously there was no legal possibility of the refugees being relocated to another country, as demanded, while the city had
offered them the opportunity to reintegrate into the communities from where they came prior to the protest action in the CBD.the city was not insensitive to the plight of the refugees “but we simply cannot allow the situation to carry on unchecked as it has had a major impact on surrounding businesses, including the traders on Greenmarket Square”.
Emergency shelter elsewhere would not be provided to the group, said Smith, “given the great need that exists among South Africans, not to mention the precedent that it would set”. “We appeal to the refugees to return to the homes they vacated to join the initial occupation of St George’s Mall. It is not legally or practically possible for the city to supply accommodation and no other sphere of government has agreed to supply such either.”
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