Thursday, August 28, 2008

Community Halls housing the displaced foreigners close today

By Mishkah Anthony
28 August 2008


The move of displaced people from City of Cape Town community halls to three safety sites has begun this morning in Bothasig.

Today displaced people will move from two community halls and a safety site to the Harmony Park safety site in Strand.

Pieter Cronje from the City of Cape Town says, the movement of 55 people started at 9am this morning at the Bothasig hall,87 people will be moved from the Leibrandt van Niekerk hall,Table View at 11am, and 108 people will be moved from Silwerstroom Strand at 14pm.

“This process will continue over the next few days, we are trying the make this move as convenient for people as possible.”

Cronje says the City is trying to wrap up this move before the month of Ramadan.

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