Urgent Press Release
November 29th 2007
6am

Gympie Street in Woodstock, Cape Town was invaded by police at 5am today.

The Gympie Street Residents Co-ordinating Committee of 6 people were all arrested including the Co-ordinator Willie Heyn.

They have been unlawfully charged with contravening the High Court eviction order that was handed down against them last year.

They will appear in the Cape Town High Court today.

This is a totally unlawful arrest since none of the residents contravened the High Court Order. The order was for an eviction of the residents, but after spending 6 weeks living on the pavement outside their homes in the winter (the City having failed to provide alternative accomodation) the residents went back into the flats, but NOT the flats they were evicted from. This nullified the court order. It was then up to the owner of the flats to get a new court order against the occupants which he failed to do.