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  • Video And Images From Cape Town’s New ‘Homeless Village’

    07 Apr 2020 by Carrie in Cape Town, Health, Lifestyle, South Africa, Vibe
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    [imagesource: Office of Councillor Zahid Badroodien]

    For a number of South Africans, lockdown means staying inside their homes, with internet, electricity, and running water to wait out the 21 days of extreme physical distancing.

    Social media has been awash with posts about Netflix shows, new hobbies, and other creative ways of staying occupied. 

    For a large number of citizens, however, staying indoors isn’t really an option. Concerns were raised early on about how the homeless would self-isolate with no homes to self-isolate in.

    The City of Cape Town has been accused of mistreating the homeless in the past, so naturally, trust isn’t easy to earn, even under these unprecedented circumstances.

    Regardless, hundreds of homeless people were taken by bus to two locations in Cape Town, where they will be housed until the lockdown is over.

    News24 took a look at the first location under the Nelson Mandela Boulevard overpass on the Foreshore, which opened last Sunday (March 29):

    The shelter opened its doors on Sunday [last week]…food, single and communal tents have been provided to the occupants in an attempt to keep them off the streets during the 21-day national lockdown.

    The tent village has been met with mixed reactions from the people staying there (and the ANC Youth League), according to these interviews from last week:

    More interviews with happy and unhappy occupants:

    The second location, and the new ‘homeless village’, is at the Strandfontein Sports Complex, which was chosen because of its proximity to electricity and water.

    News24 notes that it has the space to house more people than the CBD tent village.

    The full Strandfontein Sports Complex measured 240 000 square metres, and six large marquees had been erected over the weekend.

    lockdown homeless

    Photo: Office of Councillor Zahid Badroodien

    Under normal circumstances, each was able to accommodate around 600 people. But due to physical distancing requirements, each would only accommodate 300-360 people.

    This video was shot in the day before the homeless arrived, showing a race against time:

    You can see more pictures of the site below:

    lockdown homeless

    Photo: Office of Councillor Zahid Badroodien

    lockdown homeless

    Photo: Office of Councillor Zahid Badroodien

    lockdown homeless

    Photo: Office of Councillor Zahid Badroodien

    The site is equipped with toilets, showers, a small shop, isolation tent, and medical services. It is being strictly monitored by private security, metro police, and law enforcement officers.

    More sites will be identified as officials race to erect structures that will house the homeless.

    [source:news24&news24]

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