South Africa: Court Papers Served On Foreign Nationals Seeking Refuge in Methodist Church

The City of Cape Town is applying for an urgent interdict to prevent a group of foreign nationals from continuing their "sit-in" at the Central Methodist Mission and allegedly flouting health and safety by-laws.

The City also wants the national and Western Cape police commissioners of police to use their powers of arrest in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act, and for the Department of Home Affairs to do its work in terms of the Immigration Act, including using its powers of arrest.

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