RESIDENTS TRAPPED BY LEGAL SQUABBLE

March, April 2011: Sanral wants the Lwandle land as part of its plans for the N2. The City of Cape Town suggests the roads agency negotiates to buy two portions of a Stellenbosch farm and donates them to the city. In return, the city identifies property at Macassar, about 15km away, to be developed along with a small piece of Sanral land, to which the Lwandle residents can be moved.

April 8 2011: Sanral and the city representatives meet about the matter.

August 31 2011: An e-mail from the city to Sanral says the city council cannot advise on proceeding with Sanral acquiring land for the relocation of residents until a road-tolling matter is resolved. This ends negotiations.

October 7 2011: The city files an application for an interim interdict to prevent Sanral from taking further action to change the N1 and N2 highways in Cape Town into toll roads.

May 21 2013: The city is granted the interdict.

January 22 2014: The city sends a letter to Sanral saying it has two weeks to sort out the problem or it could have to pay legal costs in terms of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act.

January 24 2014: An interim order is granted by the High Court in Cape Town preventing any future unlawful occupation of the land. The order makes it clear that only people wanting to occupy the land after the date of the draft order are to be restrained, not those who were living there before the draft order was issued.

May serves 26 its 2014: supplementary The city founding to the toll papers roads matter relating on Sanral.

June 2 and 3 2014: Evictions and demolitions of homes are carried out. Violence breaks out.

June 4 2014: Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu announces she will establish an inquiry into the evictions.