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1 March 2021 - Basetsana Koitsioe
Following Friday s hearing, the matter concerning the mass eviction of over 900 people from Cissie Gool House has been postponed to 22 April 2021
A statement by City of Cape Town Councillor Malusi Booi released on Friday, 26 February 2021, contains a number of factual errors regarding the events which led to the postponement of the City’s application for a court-ordered survey of the occupiers of the former Woodstock Hospital, now also known as Cissie Gool House.
Firstly, Councillor Booi omits to mention that the case was postponed after the City’s legal team adopted the wrong court procedures in placing the case on the unopposed motion roll of the Western Cape High Court.
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The City of Cape Town’s bid to get a court-ordered survey of the occupiers living in the former Woodstock Hospital will be the first step in its plan to evict the group who have been living there since 2017. This is according to Reclaim the City who are opposing the City’s application in the Western Cape high court to survey the nearly 900 occupiers who have renamed the hospital to ‘Cissie Gool House’.
On Friday 26 February, the matter was postponed. Reclaim the City, represented by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, asked Acting Judge de Villiers for more time to respond to the City’s application. They agreed to postpone the hearing until 22 April.