Police on hand as Cape Peninsula squatters are forcibly removed

The police were on hand to monitor the forced removal of illegal squatters from a site at Seawinds near Lavender Hill in the Cape Peninsula earlier on Saturday. City Council spokesperson Pieter Cronje told said that the police were enforcing a Cape High Court interdict granted to the City. The interdict prohibited the illegal occupation and erection of structures on Council land. The order was made final by the court last week. Cronje said the number of shacks had increased from three late on Friday to 37 on Saturday afternoon . No violence were reported from the area.