Chairperson, I give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move on behalf of the ANC:
That the Council -
1) notes that the DA-controlled City of Cape Town ignored a High Court order last week when they evicted the poorest of poor people unlawfully and in a brutal, apartheid-style manner from their informal shelters in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain, leaving several people injured;
2) further notes that the City's law enforcement agents not only demolished the structures of these poor people unlawfully and without a court order, while swearing at them in the most disgusting language, kicking them and beating them with batons, and knocking over pots of food, but also unlawfully took their blankets, pots, pans and other belongings, leaving them desperate, destitute and without any hope in the open veld, with no food and no shelter against the cold, wet elements of the winter season;
3) takes this opportunity to condemn the City of Cape Town's actions in the harshest possible terms, and calls on the DA and its administration of the City to stop this unlawful and brutal apartheid-style behaviour; and
4) calls on the Ministers of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, of Human Settlements, and of Police to investigate this brutal and unlawful incident and take appropriate steps.