Cissie Gool House residents ask the Minister of Human Settlements to intervene in their evictions

Cabo del Cabo – The residents of Cissie Gool are asking for the intervention of the Minister of Human Settlement, Imitate Simelne, in their imminent eviction by the city of Cabo de la Residencia.

The residents were demonstrated outside the city’s civic center on Friday to deliver a memorandum of demands in an effort to stop the imminent eviction.

The building is an old Woodstock hospital and was first occupied in 2017.

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He was renamed after the first occupant, Cissie Gool, who was also an activist against apartheid in the 1960s.

The residents said that in the past, the city promised to accommodate the 850 current residents that occupy the building when it rebuilt the place in the social housing units.

According to the leader of the community in the area, which is also a occupant, Karen Hendricks, the municipality has abandoned that promise and wants to serve fewer people.

“And so we would like to tell the city of Cabo today that we ask for a significant commitment, that we are asking for an incremental development that does not displace any of the occupants because the occupants who live in Cissie Gool House have become that. Space into A place called Home “.