On 15 April 2020, 13 occupied houses were demolished in eKhenana Informal Settlement. On 22 April 2020, the City of eThekwini and its contracted security agency, Calvin Family Security Services demolished 14 homes in the eKhenana informal settlement. These evictions were conducted without a court order and while an interdict was still in effect. SERI filed an urgent application to the High Court for an interdict, contempt and compensation for the damage to the property. The matter was settled, and an undertaking was signed on 24 April 2020 wherein the City undertook to “refrain from demolishing, burning and removing or disposing of the Applicant’s informal housing structures in the informal settlement or from causing this to take place”. However, minutes after the judgment was issued the eThekwini Municipality’s Anti-Land Invasion Unit attacked the occupation and shot one of the occupiers who was rushed to hospital with serious injuries

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