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High Court grants final eviction order for parts of Culemborg in Cape Town CBDHigh Court grants final eviction order for parts of Culemborg in Cape Town CBD<img alt="" src="https://resource.capetown.gov.za/cityassets/PublishingImages/Former%20Mayors%20Header.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /><p>​The Western Cape High Court has granted a final eviction order in the City of Cape Town’s application regarding the unlawful occupation at the various road reserves and bridges around Culemborg in the Cape Town CBD. These areas are in the vicinity of the Nelson Mandela Boulevard intersection with Hertzog Boulevard, Old Marine Drive, and Christiaan Barnard Bridge. The order includes a standing interdict against any further unlawful occupation of these areas and further city-owned public spaces identified in the order. Dignified transitional shelter at City-run Safe Spaces is available for those requiring this service. The order permits the Sheriff of the court to evict any remaining unlawful occupants if needed after 14 March. <br></p><p>The final eviction order for the Culemborg area follows efforts over time by the City to offer social assistance and care interventions to those persons unlawfully occupying public spaces in the area, which is close to City-run Safe Space facilities offering dignified transitional shelter and social programmes to assist people off the streets sustainably. </p><p>Safe Spaces aim to reintegrate people into society, and reunite them with family. Personal development planning and employment opportunities are made available, as are referrals for mental health, medical, and substance abuse treatment.</p><p>In a separate ruling also handed down yesterday, the High Court granted a final eviction order in the City's application regarding  the unlawful occupation of certain erven adjacent to Victoria Road and Kloof Road in Camps Bay. As per the order, the Sheriff will conduct an eviction of any remaining unlawful occupants after 7 March.</p><p>Regarding the other  recent eviction order granted for the Green Point Tennis Courts, the City is currently assisting with the final stages of a relocation of the occupants who have taken up an offer of assistance. Besides dignified transitional shelter at Safe Spaces, emergency housing kits and relocation have also been offered to those who want to relocate to space with family or friends, or to private land with the permission of the landowner. </p><p>The Sheriff will conduct an eviction of any remaining unlawful occupants in the coming days. </p><p>The City is further awaiting the High Court's imminent ruling on a final eviction order for various homeless encampment sites in the CBD, including along Buitengracht Street, FW De Klerk Boulevard, Foregate Square, taxi rank and Foreshore, Helen Suzman Boulevard, Strand Street, Foreshore/N1, Virginia Avenue and Mill Street Bridge in the city.</p><p>'The City has gone to great lengths to extend every offer of care to individuals unlawfully occupying public places in various parts of the city. Accepting social assistance to get off the streets is the best choice for dignity, health, and well-being.</p><p>'Where offers of help to get off the streets have been persistently refused, we are seeking the court's help as a last resort. No person has the right to reserve a public space as exclusively theirs, while indefinitely refusing all offers of shelter and social assistance,' said Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.</p><p><strong>City expanding Safe Space dignified transitional shelter</strong></p><p>The City will spend R230 million over three years to expand and operate its Safe Space transitional shelters beyond the current 700 beds across CBD and Bellville facilities.</p><p>The City currently operates two Safe Spaces at Culemborg in the east CBD which offers 480 shelter beds across the facilities. The City is also set to open a new 300-bed Safe Space in Green Point next year, with this facility recently passing the planning appeals phase.</p><p>This year, the City supported a 63% bed boost to the CBD's Haven Night Shelter, expanding this facility from 96 to 156 beds via a R500 000 cost contribution. During the winter, the City further enabled several NGOs to add 300 more temporary bed spaces to cope with additional shelter demand, including the deployment of 184 EPWP workers to assist NPOs.</p><p>In total, the City's social development budget to help people off the streets amounts to R94,75m for 23/24, a 23% increase from 22/23 as the only metro dedicating a budget to this critical issue. Over three years, R75m will be available through grant-in-aid funding to NGOs, including those working to help people off the streets.</p><p>The City further runs the Matrix substance abuse treatment programme, with an 80% success rate for clients, addressing a key driver of why people end up on the streets.</p><p>In the 12 months ending June 2023, the City helped almost 3 500 individuals with shelter placement or referrals to an array of social services. This includes 2 246 shelter placements, 112 family reunifications and reintegrations, 1 124 referrals to social services, and over 880 short-term contractual job opportunities via the Expanded Public Works Programme.</p><p>The City's Safe Space model includes:</p><p>·       dignified shelter,</p><p>·       comfort and ablutions,</p><p>·       two meals per day,</p><p>·       access to a social worker on-site,</p><p>·       personal development planning,</p><p>·       various social services including ID Book and social grant assistance,</p><p>·       family reunification services</p><p>·       access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment,</p><p>·       skills training,</p><p>·       help finding a job, and</p><p>·       access to EPWP work placement</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>End</strong></p><p><br></p>2024-02-14T22:00:00ZGP0|#1d539e44-7c8c-4646-887d-386dc1d95d70;L0|#01d539e44-7c8c-4646-887d-386dc1d95d70|City news;GTSet|#62efe227-07aa-45e7-944c-ceebacca891dGP0|#d368d2c2-af0c-4605-8ff2-9b580dbe4bf8;L0|#0d368d2c2-af0c-4605-8ff2-9b580dbe4bf8|illegal occupancy;GTSet|#2e3de6c1-9951-4747-8f53-470629a399bb;GP0|#332b80ff-fa7b-4b63-aeff-5ec45b65fe4d;L0|#0332b80ff-fa7b-4b63-aeff-5ec45b65fe4d|eviction;GTSet|#2e3de6c1-9951-4747-8f53-470629a399bb;GPP|#632815ae-33d6-4255-bae7-4783535a560410

 

 

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