Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town - provincial government siege on land

the people of Hangberg, a community on the slopes of the mountains that form Houtbay, will be back in court on 8 February 2011, to hear their fate on the forced removal plans by the Democratic Alliance lead City of Cape Town administration and Western Cape provincial government. The plans entail forcing the people, with indigenous first nation people identities, off ancestral lands. Much of the land, appropriated under the various colonial conquests, already is in the hands of the rich, most likely white and more often foreign, landowners, who demand their lands be cleared of human squatting. hangberg had become a last resort, and now that small corner of the universe, runs risk of ceasing to be home to this fishing community, who might land in dusty Blikkiesdorp, described as a human dumping groung.