EFF welcomes the SCA’s dismissal of the City of Cape Town’s appeal of the ruling on the eviction of Bulelani Qolani and land occupants
11 July 2024
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomes the Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) decisive dismissal of the City of Cape Town's bid to appeal the Western Court High Court Judgement, in which the court found that the removal of land occupants during COVID-19 was unlawful, unconstitutional and inhumane.
At the peak of COVID-19 in 2020, the racist City of Cape Town which presides over the most racially segregated and unequal metropolitan in the country sent its Anti-Land Invasion Unit to remove residents in Khayelitsha. The homes of the residents in Empolweni, Emfuleni, and Hangberg were demolished including all their belongings for those who may not have been home.
The most dehumanised victim of this illegal eviction was Bulelani Qolani who was dragged out of his residence naked, so that the DA-led City of Cape Town could execute evictions that bore a painful resemblance to Apartheid era evictions.
This eviction would have been inhumane in any context, but the fact that it occurred during a state of national disaster and a global pandemic, was proof of the little regard the DA-led City of Cape Town has for black life and the rule of law.