The process to move 2,648 families from the central railway line near Philippi train station has begun.
The central line – which runs from Cape Town to Langa and then to Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, and Belhar – has not been operating since November 2019.
About 10 families have now been moved off the central railway line to a location about one kilometre from the train station.
When the publication visited the site earlier on Friday, a foreman said that the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) gave an instruction that no media be allowed on the site.
People could be seen constructing about 10 informal structures on cement foundations laid by PRASA.
The site also has a set of about 10 toilets, but no running water or ablution facilities.
On 10 November, PRASA CEO Hishaam Emeran told Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts officials that the rail agency would take four to six weeks for the first phase of the project to relocate 890 out of the 2,648 families to the new site.
PRASA has not responded to the publication’s attempts for comment.
-EWN
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