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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Tuesday, </span><a href=\"https://groundup.org.za/article/tent-city-homeless-camps-days-are-numbered/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we reported</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> how the community had been facing imminent eviction for weeks and how some people had chosen to relocate voluntarily. But many were not happy with the relocation offers and decided to stay put.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GroundUp</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> arrived at the scene we found some people sitting outside the camp with all their belongings. Some were still packing their things in boxes and suitcases.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At about 9.30am, a man with a megaphone, accompanied by law enforcement and police officers, said: “All of them out… We will demolish all these structures.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid the ensuing chaos a woman’s bag was stolen outside the site by a passerby. Another woman was dragged from the camp by law enforcement officers. Some tents caught fire. The fire was quickly extinguished by fire and rescue vehicles, but not before people lost their belongings.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065411\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Green Point tent city\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>Muriel Baard sits with her belongings before the start of the eviction. Baard said that she didn’t know where she would sleep. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people we spoke to told us they didn’t know where they were going to sleep now.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The City “promised us they were going to give us places, but now they are putting us out without giving us places”, said Muriel Baard, sitting outside the tennis courts with her belongings. “Now, I don’t know what’s going to happen. They are forcing us out.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was most worried that her Sassa documents and ID might be stolen.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said she was homeless because there were problems at home.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065394\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>Lourensa Manuel was unsure where to go with her dog as shelters don’t accept animals. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Tuesday we reported how Lourensa Manuel and her dog, Selah, were moved to the City’s Safe Space, but she didn’t stay there because she would have been forced to give up Selah.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I’m very stressed out at the moment… I’ve no idea what I’m going to do. I’ve lost everything in this process.”</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065393\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>Collecting what he can, this man was waving a South African flag. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065405\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>Police start removing people. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065423\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-5new.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>Police tell people to leave. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065392\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>A woman is dragged from the site after refusing to leave. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065403\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-8.jpeg\" alt=\"Green Point tent city\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" /> <em>After being dragged out, she lay crying on the ground. Help was offered by her family but she refused to move. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065402\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groundup-Green-Point-tent-city-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> <em>She then attempted to attack an officer. 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Muriel Baard sits with her belongings before the start of the eviction. Baard said that she didn’t know where she would sleep. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
Lourensa Manuel was unsure where to go with her dog as shelters don’t accept animals. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
Collecting what he can, this man was waving a South African flag. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
Police start removing people. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
Police tell people to leave. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
A woman is dragged from the site after refusing to leave. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
After being dragged out, she lay crying on the ground. Help was offered by her family but she refused to move. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
She then attempted to attack an officer. She was later seen running into the middle of the road, brick in hand, against traffic before she was apprehended by police. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
Tensions continued to rise as people claimed that their bags had been stolen. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
A fire broke out among the tents during the eviction. It is unclear how it started. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
A metro police officer tries to put out the fire. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
As the fire grew, people tried to remove their belongings that were situated near the fence. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)
Firefighters eventually arrived to put out the fire. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)