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Cape Town refugees: Cops move in to remove informal structures outside Methodist church

Refugees living around the Central Methodist Mission Church in Cape Town are currently being removed along with their belongings. This comes after the Western Cape High Court granted the City of Cape Town an interim order in February, stating that the City can enforce its by-laws on the refugees and asylum seekers living outside the church on Greenmarket Square. Videos and media reports on Sunday showed police and law enforcement […]

2 March 2020

Local

COCT to implement by-laws to remove foreign nationals

The City of Cape Town says it will implement its by-laws to remove foreign nationals around the Central Methodist Church on Friday. The High Court last week granted the local authority an order to remove those living around the Green Market Square precinct. The foreign nationals began squatting on the pavement in October last year after being removed from a sidewalk in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for […]

25 February 2020

News

Various structures seek solution for refugees staging sit-in at CPT Church, as both leaders remain in custody

The case against the second leader of the refugees housed at the Central Methodist Church in the Cape Town CBD has been postponed. Papy Sukami appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on two charge of robbery on Monday, after being arrested the previous week. It follows reports that the 41-year-old, alongside a group of his supporters, had allegedly robbed two journalists of expensive equipment nearly two months ago. […]

6 January 2020

Local

Refugee group leader arrested for assault at Cape Town church

Cape Town police have arrested the 38-year-old leader of a group of refugees housed at the city's Central Methodist Church, they said on Wednesday. The Congolese national faces eight charges of assault, of which five are assault with the intention to do grievous bodily harm, the office of the provincial commissioner said. His arrest follows complaints by some of the refugees living in the church, that they have been assaulted. […]

2 January 2020

Local

Cape Town church stands up against nuclear plans

A church near the Parliamentary precinct made its opposition to the government's nuclear plans visible when it unfurled a big yellow banner on Sunday. "New-Clear Power NOT Nuclear," read the banner hung on the wall of the Central Methodist Mission church in Cape Town’s Green Market Square. The banner was put up in "solidarity with a cause affecting all South African citizens", according to a press release from Southern African […]

5 December 2017

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Cape Town refugees: Cops move in to remove informal structures outside Methodist church

COCT to implement by-laws to remove foreign nationals

Various structures seek solution for refugees staging sit-in at CPT Church, as both leaders remain in custody

Refugee group leader arrested for assault at Cape Town church

Cape Town church stands up against nuclear plans

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