Immigrants Allegedly Evicted Without South African Court Order

About 20 homless people - most of them migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo - have been forcibly removed from the disused former Ivory Room and Madame Zingara buildings on Loop Street, Cape Town without a court order, write Natalie Pertsovsky of GroundUp.

A view from above through the roof of the Madam Zingara building from a neigbouring property.

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