‘David versus Goliath’: Being homeless in the City of Cape Town
Al Jazeera
Eleven homeless people have launched court proceedings to challenge constitutionality of archaic bylaws.
Cape Town, South Africa – Carin Gelderbloem was woken in the early hours by a large rock crashing down on her tent. A group of high school students had been drinking all day in Company’s Garden, just down the road from the South African Parliament. They were now terrorising its homeless. When Gelderbloem’s boyfriend, Rameez Kemp, went outside to protest, he was beaten and stabbed repeatedly. Colon hanging out, he managed to stagger to the park entrance. Having lost a lot of blood, he was eventually taken by ambulance to Somerset Hospital two hours later, within an inch of his life.
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