Occupiers who moved into a former old age home in Observatory have been forced to live on the pavement outside the abandoned building. Now they're waiting for the city to relocate them.
Demolitions are currently under way at a Cape Town building previously occupied by a group of about 200 backyarders, shack dwellers and homeless people. An occupation of sorts is still going on, however, and is into its third month outside the building, Arcadia Place in Observatory.
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