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Married couple who led Greenmarket Square refugee protest facing charges
The married couple who led one of the factions of refugees that held a five-month protest at Greenmarket Square are…
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Home Affairs and City of Cape Town fight over deportation of refugees
Home Affairs and the City of Cape Town are engaged in a blame game over who should shoulder the responsibility…
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Trespassing case opened against Cape Town refugees
Refugees who were living outside the Central Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square have fled police to St Mary’s Church, located…
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Cape Town refugees likely to be removed this weekend
The verification process of the refugees living in and around GreenMarket Square has been completed. It’s been about four months…
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Transfer of refugees from around CT church to new venue put on hold
The City of Cape Town planned to move them on Tuesday as per a court order granted on Monday, but…
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Representative for CT foreign nationals not suprised by court order
The court has ordered foreigners living outside the church off Greenmarket Square to refrain from making fires and urinating on…
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Refugee leader arrested at Cape Town church
Chaotic scenes continue playing out between two groups of refugees housed at the Central Methodist Church on Greenmarket Square in…
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City of Cape Town now plans to use bylaws to remove refugees
JP Smith says failure to do this will have dire consequences for the informal traders on Greenmarket Square. The City…
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Over 600 refugees living in squalor is no emergency – City of Cape Town
The City’s advocate likened it to a situation of a hunger strike, saying if people refused to eat, they gave…
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Video – Faith leaders attacked by refugees in Cape Town church
Refugees accommodated by the Central Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square can be seen losing their tempers amid calls for calm.…
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Cape Town church provides refuge to foreign nationals violently moved by cops
They carried their blankets, mattresses, and bags inside and up the church’s steps and within an hour, every pew in…
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