Harmony Park in the Strand and Blue Waters safety sites are two of the sites displaced people now call home.

Until last week displaced foreigners who fell victim to xenophobic attacks were still housed in the Sarepta Resource Centre, too scared to return to previous settlements where they lived before xenophobic attacks broke out earlier this year.

During this time, government was supplying victims with food on a daily basis.

Mr. Vincent Marindza from Mozambique is one of the 134 people, including 14 children, who lived at the Sarepta Resource Centre and were relocated.

At the centre he was assigned to be in charge of distributing the food supplied by government to the refugees at the centre.

TygerBurger reported on 6 Augustus this year that Marindza had his two children and wife living here with him. They had been living in Johannesburg, but left after the xenophobic attacks. He decided that it would be better if the family remained together.

“If we are going to be killed, it is so much better to rather be together,” he said.

“I don’t know what to do. Back in Kalkfontein my shack has been destroyed and there is nothing useful that I could find to use to rebuild my shack.”

He decided it was better to remain at the centre until the situation improves.

“It’s not safe yet. The other day when I went into Kalkfontein to have it checked out, I was told once again that they will kill us one by one. I don’t know how this is going to be solved,” he said.

Meanwhile, according to the City of Cape Town, facing very bad weather this past weekend, some 55 of the 250 people at Bothasig, Table View and Silverstroom were transported to the Harmony Park safety site in Strand last Friday. Many of the displaced people left of their own accord or arranged their own transport. The rest were relocated on Saturday, according to a media release issued by the City.

The people at Soetwater were moved this past weekend to the Blue Waters safety site and around 120 people were relocated from the Summer Greens hall in Milnerton and 106 from the Richwood hall in Table View.