Police move in once again to move refugees from a Cape Town park
2 March 2020
"They are treating us like animals," said Ali Musa, a refugee from Somalia, as Cape Town's Law Enforcement unit prepared to once again move a group of refugees, this time those who slept in a park on Sunday.
They moved there after the City of Cape Town effected a court order on Sunday to enforce by-laws which prevent people from sleeping on pavements, cooking and washing in public, on the perimeter of the Central Methodist Mission church.
The refugees moved from outside the Methodist church on Greenmarket Square to St Mary's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt, opposite Parliament.
Authorities then swiftly moved them from there on Sunday afternoon and they slept in a park opposite Constitution Street near the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.