Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that in another show of desperation, the Democratic Alliance- led City of Cape Town arrested and detained 38 job seekers looking for work outside Brackenfell under the veiled disguise of contravening the City of Cape Town's by-laws and being a nuisance for seeking casual work on the side of the road;
2) further notes that the detainees were fined R100 each and left to walk back to the same area after an intervention by the area Councillor of the ANC, councillor Werner Schwella; 3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such blatant manipulation of the police to wage a systemic attack on the poor job seekers when President Jacob Zuma has just announced the launch of a fund to support job seekers like the men on the side of the road to be able to earn some income to support their families; and
4) takes this opportunity to call on all organisations and people supporting job seekers on the side of the road to condemn this despicable action of the DA.