Vigilante attack on Sea Point resident for feeding homeless people
6 May 2020
Across the Province and the country good Samaritans are spontaneously opening their wallets, hearts and kitchens to provide their hungry neighbours with meals everyday.
On Freedom Day, 27 April 2020, I requested the Premier of the Western Cape and the Provincial Police Leadership to confirm the lawfulness of the spontaneous feeding schemes popping up all over the province in response to widespread hunger.
I did so after I received reports and a video (https://youtu.be/Q7tWH26LHN0) of a Mouille Point resident having been threatened with arrest, by a Police Captain from the Sea Point Police Station, for feeding homeless people who live on the streets of the Atlantic Seaboard.
Police leadership confirmed that this feeding scheme was lawful.