Lawyers for Human Rights to fight Schubart Park evictions (EWN)
Lawyers for Human Rights have served letters on the Tshwane Municipality and the South African Police Service (Saps) demanding they come clean on plans for Schubart Park. Mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa told Eyewitness News at the State of the City Address, last week, that they plan on clearing out the inner city slum within the next two weeks.
The organisation said the TshwaneMunicipality intends illegally evicting SchubartPark residents on March 25 without a court order. It is understood the municipality has met on several occasions with the police and non-governmental organisations to plan the eviction.
Attorney Louise du Plessis said they are drafting papers to interdict the parties, “They cannot evict them without a court order. We were still in negotiations with them and they were supposed to come back to us with certain information and they never came back to us,” she said. Meanwhile, the Police Ministry said it has not received the document while the municipality did not respond to queries.