EX-ROBBEN ISLAND EMPOWERMENT FORUM (ERIEF)

PRESS STATEMENT (May 05, 2020)
The Impact of Neglect and COVID-19 0n Robben Island Ex-Political Prisoners.
A community near Cape Town is shocked and in despair after discovering that many of its members are being evicted from houses they had purchased a few years back.
It’s a blistering hot afternoon when we arrive at the Barracks. This regimentally built cluster of council houses was erected as a transit camp in Wentworth in 1972.