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Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 03:00
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Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
121 [3]
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Residents of Vrygrond Phase 6 won an agreement from the Cape Town Unicity today that evictions would be put on hold for at least 3 months. This decision comes after members of the Vrygrond Action Committee (previously Vrygrond Anti-Eviction Campaign) presented research done within Phase 6 showing that the evidence presented to the Cape Town High Court by the Unicity's lawyers earlier this year was fatally flawed. Officials of the Unicity had been trying to move ahead with eviction orders on ...read more [4]

Residents of Vrygrond Phase 6 won an agreement from the Cape Town Unicity today that evictions would be put on hold for at least 3 months. This decision comes after members of the Vrygrond Action Committee (previously Vrygrond Anti-Eviction Campaign) presented research done within Phase 6 showing that the evidence presented to the Cape Town High Court by the Unicity's lawyers earlier this year was fatally flawed. Officials of the Unicity had been trying to move ahead with eviction orders on the basis of the fact that they claimed that most of the people who occupied houses in Phase 6 had moved to Vrygrond after 1998.

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ICT, Media & Security [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/16729 [6]
Country: 
South Africa [7]

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