South Africa's Water and Sanitation Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, visited the Mpolweni site where residents were earlier this week controversially evicted from the land by Cape Town's law enforcement unit.<br /><br />The eviction caused anger because the national government has placed a ban on all evictions during the national coronavirus lockdown. <br /><br />On Friday, the Western Cape High Court ordered that the original 49 families be allowed to return and the material of their broken-down structures be returned to them.<br /><br />Sisulu also demonstrated a water tank donated by UNICEF, which has been filled with hand sanitizer, as the City of Cape Town has not granted approval for the tanks to be filled with water.<br /><br />The City of Cape Town and the Western Cape is under the political control of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's official opposition party. Minister Sisulu is a national minister, from the ruling African National Congress.
