Sports clubs in Mitchells Plain staged protests against the illegal occupation of the Lentegeur Sports Ground by the Group for Developers, a local NGO pushing for the land's development. Many NGOs in the Cape use land invasions as a method for achieving their ideological aims of demographic change and land redistribution, like Reclaim the City, who organised a building hijacking in 2017, but has nonetheless not faced charges for organised crime.

Other groups, like SERI and Ndifuna Ukwazi, encourage land invasions and give legal assistance to land invaders and squatters, advising them to refuse offers of alternative accommodation from local councils until they get ideal properties, and sometimes title deeds, allocated to them.

Faseegh Creighton of Collisions Rugby Football Club expressed concern over the occupation in Lentegeur, stating, "For the last two weeks, people have been trying to set up illegal camps on our rugby field. We are competing in leagues and train on the field as there are no other rugby fields in Mitchells Plain."

The City of Cape Town swiftly obtained an urgent interdict against the occupation. The leader of the organization, Riaan Koeberg, is the first respondent in the case.

The interdict, a temporary measure pending a final determination, prohibits unauthorized individuals from entering or occupying the Lentegeur Sports Ground and engaging in any unlawful building activities. It also grants law enforcement agencies the authority to dismantle any illegal structures erected on the property. Wayne Dyason, a law enforcement spokesperson, confirmed the issuance of the interdict and stated that law enforcement will continue to enforce it.

Interdicts have become the main measure for establishing a legal foothold against land invasions in the absence of police enforcement. According to insiders, SAPS has been under the directive for a number of years now not to enforce the trespass laws, and to wait for local authorities to evict uner the PIE Act, which treats land invaders like legal tenants.

Koeberg, who received the interim interdict, expressed his determination to continue the fight, highlighting the perceived treatment of the people of Mitchells Plain by the government and the need for their cause to be heard.

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