Chaos In Cape Town As Foreign Nationals & Refugees Evicted From City Centre Repatriation Protest

Riyaz Patel

Police have forcibly removed hundreds of foreign nationals and refugees outside the offices of the UN High Commission for Refugees in Cape Town – the site of a weeks-long sit-in protest where they’re demanding to be repatriated from South Africa because of xenophobia fears.

The protesters have for weeks now asked to be evacuated from South Africa citing fears of attacks against foreign nationals.

Scores of police vehicles and police officers moved in around the site in St George’s Mall in the Cape Town CBD and began removing the protesters Wednesday.

Police fired rubber bullets and sprayed water cannons at protesters when