The city council says it cannot open a section of one of Cape Town's busiest thoroughfares, closed due to violent housing protests, until it is safe for its workers to remove barricades.
Lansdowne Road, passing through Site C, Khayelitsha has been closed for more than a week as overturned shipping containers and several trenches dug by the community of BT-Section have made the road impassable...
City council spokesperson Kylie Hatton said workers would only remove the objects blocking traffic in the road "when it was safe to move into the area".
The community have for months violently shown their anger with the city council which, they insist, should move them away from the area and on to serviced sites where they could put up their shacks...
Last month an off-duty police officer who drove through several barricades on the road and confronted protesters, brandishing his service pistol, was beaten unconscious with rocks and had his gun taken from him.
The community's living quarters are often flooded in winter and during summer those living there run the risk of losing their homes to fires as they don't have access to electricity in their shacks...
Lansdowne Road, passing through Site C, Khayelitsha has been closed for more than a week as overturned shipping containers and several trenches dug by the community of BT-Section have made the road impassable...
City council spokesperson Kylie Hatton said workers would only remove the objects blocking traffic in the road "when it was safe to move into the area".
The community have for months violently shown their anger with the city council which, they insist, should move them away from the area and on to serviced sites where they could put up their shacks...
Last month an off-duty police officer who drove through several barricades on the road and confronted protesters, brandishing his service pistol, was beaten unconscious with rocks and had his gun taken from him.The community's living quarters are often flooded in winter and during summer those living there run the risk of losing their homes to fires as they don't have access to electricity in their shacks...
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