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Observatory occupiers “at the mercy of the City and Gugulethu residents”

The high court has ordered Singabalapha residents to leave by 30 November

The deadline for people living in Singabalapha informal settlement along Observatory Main Road to vacate the site is looming but they say they have nowhere to go. Archive photos: Dave Fisher

By court order, occupiers of Singabalapha informal settlement along Main Road, Observatory, must vacate the area by the end of November.

But they say they do not know where to go.

The City of Cape Town had planned to relocate them and also families from Masonwabe to a site in Gugulethu, but the Masonwabe group say the land was promised to them.

The deadline for people living along the Main Road in Observatory to vacate the site is looming, but many of them say they still don’t know where…

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