Camp closure continues steadily

By Yamkela Xhaso
11 November

The closure process at the Blue Waters is continuing at a steady pace leaving hundreds of refugee confused and others refuse to leave the camps.

City of Cape Town spokesperson Pieter Cronje says “there are two sections Site B and Site C”

In Site B Cronje says they only have 120 refugees out of four hundred and fifty left and in Site C there are 600.

“We are cutting down services to Site B as from today and then we will start processing people in the Site C” said Cronje

Cronje hopes that at the beginning of next week all of the applications for relocation would have been processed and they will then ask the people to kindly leave the site.

“We have no option but to apply an eviction order”

These refugees are the last remaining on the site which recently after the eruption of xenophobic violence they numbered up to twenty thousand and about nineteen thousand refugees have left the camps.

Cronje added that the crisis that was declared in the camp is over which is the reason why they have to close the safety sites.