Naked eviction: Cape Town mayor claims 'to some extent it was a staged act'

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Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato claims that a man, who was evicted from his shack while naked and wrestled to the ground, removed his clothes as a tactic to make the City of Cape Town look bad.

Plato, who said on Thursday morning that the dignity of the man, Bulelani Qolani, was impaired and that he was "truly sorry for what he experienced", told eNCA on Thursday night that the Khayelitsha dad would "have to come clean with regard to his role, if it was deliberate or not".

Plato said he had viewed footage and images of the incident, which were taken by City officials who make their own recordings when they "move" onto a site.

He claimed the footage showed that Qolani was clothed "moments" before he was evicted, when he stood at a shack the officers went to previously.

"I have the pictures in front of me. He had clothes on," Plato said.

He said the City's preliminary investigation, from its own videos, gave a "completely different account of what precisely happened there, despite the latter part of the video footage".

News24 has requested access to the video clips and images.

Plato alleged that it was "common" during the removal of illegal structures that "people stand in front of the structure naked".
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And the thick plottens
 
Dan Plato sounded like Trump this morning. "Some people tell me that it may have been staged" Don't read judgments to me, you're not a lawyer".

 
ponder said:
Ok Gordon_R :p
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The thought did cross my mind, but I was busy with something else.

@thechamp is on my ignore list, and definitely not an alias for me.

The correct way is to tag me @Gordon_R next time...

Edit: Oh, let me add the @Currantly to my ignore list as well, for not following the forum rules.
 
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South Africa, where shame is a rare commodity

The Covid-19 pandemic provides even more time to reflect on the sort of society we have become even as the ineptitude of the state has been laid bare throughout this period.
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The City of Cape Town is well known for its brutality and mostly ill-conceived plans to deal with those who occupy land. The homeless have been levied with fines for sleeping rough, another of JP Smith’s pointless interventions.

And of course Mr Qholani’s dignity was impaired long before the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, arrived in Khayelitsha during lockdown, pink gloves and bejewelled ring in place. Sisulu has called for the Western Cape government to “get to the bottom of the incident…”
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Give me. Its never gonna end.
SA turned into a bunch of begars. Thanks to the thieves of the government.
 
now to be honest.. i have seen this at nightclubs i worked at.
It always amazed me how many clothing pieces can be lost in a scuffle with a drunk moron.
 
Bulelani Qolani 'took off his clothes to taunt law enforcement', says City of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town says new footage obtained by law enforcement officials of Bulelani Qolani - the man who was allegedly evicted from his home while bathing - paints a different picture to the video that went viral.


In a statement on Monday, the City said independent investigators Fairbridges Attorneys kicked off their probe into the incident which took place during an Empolweni anti-land invasion operation.

In the video that went viral, a struggle between officers and Qolani is shown as Qolani tries to run away while naked.


It is alleged he was taking a bath before officers started to demolish his shack.

READ | 'I was in my room washing. Then they threw me outside' - Bulelani Qolani describes how he was dragged naked from his shack

However, the City claims they are in possession of footage taken by the officials as evidence which shows that Qolani was not bathing as previously claimed.
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Naked man eviction case: Officers cleared of misconduct charges, court hears​


The officers charged with gross misconduct over the eviction of a naked man from a shack in Cape Town have been cleared.

This emerged during a Western Cape High Court hearing over the legality of the City of Cape Town's responses to the occupation of City-owned land without its permission. The case stems from the eviction of the naked man.

The four officers were charged after evicting Bulelani Qolani on 1 July 2020. An EFF official filmed the incident at the site in Baden Powell Drive, near to an occupied stretch of land the City was meant to use for waste water plant upgrades.
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Western Cape to square off with SAHRC and EFF in battle for land owners’ rights​


Cape Town - The Western Cape government will make submissions today in the case brought by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the EFF to strike down the existing legal right of landowners to protect property from unlawful occupation attempts without a court order.

The case involves the City’s controversial eviction of Bulelani Qolani from his Khayelitsha shack in June last year.

The court is hearing the arguments on the principle of counter-spoliation, a legal remedy that allows a person to forcibly re-take possession of property unlawfully taken from them, following the inability of the two previous judges to reach consensus in the matter last year.
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Appeal Court rules that City of Cape Town acted unlawfully​


The Supreme Court of Appeal has confirmed that the City of Cape Town was wrong in applying the remedy of “counter-spoliation” when it demolished the shacks of land occupiers in and around the city in 2020.

The City had argued that it could use the remedy at any stage before a fully constructed informal structure becomes occupied as a home, but the appeal court has said this is not permissible. The court said this amounted to the City taking the law into its own hands. Such evictions can only take place within a “narrow window” without having to go to court, the judges said.

The City took the matter on appeal following an equally damning ruling in July 2022 by three Judges in the Western Cape High Court in an application brought by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), the EFF and others, with Abahlali BaseMjondolo as an amicus curiae.
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Currantly said:
The most recent ruling is from only a few days ago.



If you're suggesting that the ruling is 'right', or that I should agree with it; you couldn't be more wrong.

The ruling is certifiably batshiz insane.
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No, I was just amazed that you caught that 3 years later. How'd you remember?

Didn't read the ruling.
 
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