A court matter related to the eviction of a group of District Six residents will resume next year. The affected residents picketed outside the High Court in Cape Town, after the cottages they have been living in for decades in Searle Street, were sold to a private developer.
Their lawyer, Frankl Weber, says the case has been postponed until the 27th of January.
Weber says they are open to settling the matter out of court.
“In the interim, we have also reached out to various levels of government to mediate, to request an engagement on the possibility of exploring the possibility of expropriation with compensation. So far, only the City of Cape Town has replied and has actively engaged with us and is not opposed to the mediation. We have not heard from other levels of government or from the attorneys representing the applicant,” says Weber.
The lawyers representing the property’s owner had not responded to our request for comment at the time of publication.