A group of homeless people who have set up a makeshift tent village at the Sea Point tennis courts have said they are willing to move, but only to a place "conducive to human habitation with running water and proper ablution facilities." The City of Cape Town filed a new eviction order last month, but with some people having lived there for nearly six years, relocating the homeless will be challenging.
Locals have now asked the city to give them proper housing, and if not, work in collaboration with them to make the area safer and cleaner. "We need proper fencing and security that will be on guard day and night to ensure law and order. Also, maybe some of us can be employed as cleaners and recyclers to ensure that the place is kept neat at all times," he said.