Bulelani qholani
CoCT holds off on releasing report into Bulelani Qholani eviction
The City of Cape Town's JP Smith said that the full investigative report would not be released yet as the Human Rights Commission had brought a court challenge...
The court action seeks to stop all evictions and demolishing of informal structures without court oversight for the duration of the national state of disaster.
During last week's eviction, a naked man was forced from his shack, which, along with several others, had been built on municipal land.
Lindiwe Sisulu has told the NCOP that as much as illegal occupation would not be tolerated, evictions were equally not allowed during lockdown.
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said that all provinces were prohibited from evicting people, according to national coronavirus command council guidelines.
The Legal Resource Centre has threatened legal action against the City fo Cape Town after Bulelani Qholani was hauled naked out of his Khayelitsha shack last week.
This week, four structures were demolished in the Khayelitsha area, and during that operation Bulelani Qholani was removed from his shack naked.
Bulelani Qholani was dragged from his home while naked and his structure demolished by the authorities in eThembeni earlier this week.
This comes after law enforcement officers this week demolished four structures because they were illegally erected on city-owned land in the area.
Cele and the Western Cape provincial police commissioner visited the Ethembeni community on Saturday.
The police minister Bheki Cele was in the Empolweni informal settlement on Saturday, just days after Bulelani Qholani was evicted from his home while naked.
Bulelani Qholani was forcibly removed from his shack while naked by the City of Cape Town's law enforcement officers during an eviction operation this week.
Law enforcement officers removed Bulelani Qholani from his home while he was naked and later allowed him to put on some clothing.
The City of Cape Town is well-known for its brutality and mostly ill-conceived plans to deal with those who occupy land, writes Judith February.
A video, which has been shared widely, shows the officers removing Bulelani Qholani from his home in the Empolweni while he was washing himself.
Qholani said that his body is still in pain after Cape Town law enforcement officers manhandled him.