On Thursday, the sheriff of the court and four labourers started dismantling and emptying shacks from 3B Cambridge Street where some of Walmer Estate's last remaining shack dwellers live. Eleven adults and three children were put on the street and left homeless.
Neighbours around the property, a residential plot, rallied in support of the shack dwellers, directing insults at police officers and questioning the sheriff's right to evict the families. The sheriff pointed to the fact that he was enforcing an eviction order handed down in the Cape Town Magistrates' Court.
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