'We want to be in white areas'
12/06/2008 16:06  - (SA)  

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Cape Town - About 200 people, most of them displaced foreigners, were on Thursday afternoon still occupying the concourse of the Cape Town civic centre.

The refugees, who were at one stage sleeping on the pavement outside the city centre police station, want to be accommodated in civic halls in "white areas".

On Thursday morning, when the occupation began, they and the Treatment Action Campaign, which is supporting the protest, handed over memorandums to deputy mayor Grant Haskin and the director general in the Western Cape premier's office Lionel Louw.

"We are going to sleep here until we get answers. We have nowhere else to be," said spokesperson for the foreigners Victoire Ngoy.

About a dozen SA police members were watching the displaced persons on Thursday afternoon, and security officials were restricting access to the civic centre.

- SAPA

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