CAPE TOWN - The City of Cape Town said on Tuesday a task team formed to look at the challenges facing shack-dwellers is making progress.
The team consists of council officials and members of various political parties.
In the past few months Cape Town has been a scene of violent protests.
Residents from informal settlements all over the Western Cape have protested over the lack of service delivery.
In most of these cases protesters demanded houses, electricity and proper sanitation services.
Most informal settlements do not have working toilets and are forced to use the bucket system.
Demonstrators damaged property belonging to the City of Cape Town totalling millions of rands.
The city's Ernest Sonnerberg said, “We’re currently looking at land issues in terms of ownership and which parts of the land in informal settlements can be developed. We’re assessing the levels of services in informal settlements, where it’s lacking and how it can be improved.”
“The informal settlement task team was established before the service delivery protests started.”
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