Home at last' : die storie van Freedom Park en sy inwoners

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The escalation in the growing upsurge of informal settlements seems to create a fewproblems for local municipalities in the Cape Metropolitan Area (CMA). At thebeginning of 1998 the capacity of the City Of Cape Town Municipality (CCT) was fullytested with the coming into being of a new informal settlement in the Tafelsig, Mitchell'sPlain area. During the Easter weekend of that year homeless people started to invade apiece of vacant land, which belongs to this municipality, illegally.With the establishing of Freedom Park many of the homeless felt that the time was ripefor this municipality to address their problems and grievances. However up till now thishas not materialised, as this municipality is refusing to make any service delivery andinfrastructure available to them. Despite this, the people are still reluctant to submit to thedemand of the municipality to evacuate the piece of land.Hitherto many had asked questions about the settlement and its people. With the askingof these questions, people had shown their ignorance about the Freedom Park issue. Thisignorance led people to make certain assumptions, which are clearly far from the truth.The aim of this study is thus to present more clear-cut answers to the most commonquestions people had asked and still are asking.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University