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Fires strike railway line settlement as relocation talks drag on for 13 years

Resettlement of Cape Town’s Siyahlala families unresolved

A fire swept through Siyahlala informal settlement in Dunoon, Cape Town, on 4 October, gutting about 20 homes and displacing about 100 people. Photo: Peter Luhanga

A court-directed mediation process began in June 2013 to relocate families in Siyahlala informal settlement, built partly on railway tracks in Dunoon, Cape Town. The City of Cape Town says mediation continues under a supervising judge.
Meanwhile fires are frequent in the settlement, with dozens of people displaced.
Transnet says trains stopped using the line in February 2018, and an estimated 336,000 tonnes of freight a year were shifted to road transport.
The Western Cape government says a draft agreement provides for 500 houses in Killarney Gardens, but it has yet to be finalised…

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