About 700 men, women and children found themselves on the street with no roof over their head after police bulldozed their houses.
This is the eviction of illegal squatters on a portion of a land at Four Mile belonging to the Works Department
Most of these people were paying rent at the places they were staying at.
Policemen carrying out the eviction say the settlers were given two weeks notice to vacant the land.
Police say this portion of land has been sold to major retail supermarket TST.
Martin Clement, an employee of Curtain Brothers, is one of those whose family has been displaced by the action.
He says he used to pay K150 rent fortnightly.
“Now I have nowhere to go, my children will have nowhere to go and this will affect their schooling,” Clement says.
He has seven children, four of them attending school.
Clement says it would have been good if they were given notice and then he would have moved his family out.
Now his family have put their small tent next to a drain and for two nights this is where they have slept.
“We are lucky it did not rain. If it does tonight, we will be in big trouble,” he says.