Doornbach shack dwellers who saw their shacks demolished in April but were then able to rebuild them after the City of Cape Town intervened are angry at the prospect of again seeing their homes demolished to make way for a new road linked to the Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) system.
And although the 25 households on the boundary of Doornbach informal settlement are willing to move, they are dismayed at plans to accommodate them within the settlement because they say it is too densely populated to accommodate them.
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