South Africa: Lwandle Residents to be Moved Back

Cape Town — Talks aimed at finding a solution to the eviction of hundreds of families from an informal settlement in Lwandle, Cape Town, were "not a smooth-sailing exercise", a government official said on Monday.

"It was a very difficult exercise. There was a lot of mistrust between ourselves and community members," a deputy director general in the human settlements department, Mbulelo Tshangana, told an inquiry into the matter.

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