WATCH | Video of police forcefully taking baby from mother in Cape Town goes viral

A video of members of the SA Police Service (SAPS) allegedly trying to snatch a baby from a woman in Cape Town has gone viral.

In the video, police can be seen violently pulling a girl from a woman on the ground, while she desperately tries to hold on to the baby.

The child clings to the woman, while three police officers force her to let go.

The incident happened during a stand-off between police and foreigners in Cape Town on Wednesday.

SowetanLIVE reported that refugees and safety seekers staged a sit-in outside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) offices in Waldorf Arcade, St George's Mall, demanding to be relocated from SA.

Western Cape police arrested about 100 people, after a court order for the protesters' eviction was granted to the landlord on October 18.

The refugees want to be repatriated to their home countries or moved elsewhere, after a spate of xenophobic riots and attacks in September, which left at least 10 people dead.

The video was shared on social media, with many calling for the police officers in question to be fired or prosecuted.

This just made me sick to the stomach ,horrific and disgusting on every level!
— Bonnie Mbuli (@BonnieMbuli) October 30, 2019

This is no different from the Trump administration putting kids in cages - wherever we all stand on immigrants in SA, surely we are all agreed that this behaviour is not acceptable.
— Amanda Reekie 🇿🇦 (@moozir) October 30, 2019

What the hell is happening in Cape Town? What is this? Are we now back to the old days of apartheid? And why are they taking their children? Argh man!!!
— Farah-T (@RealFarahT) October 30, 2019

it's inhuman and quite sad coz our government is only targeting African migrants of our skin color, repudiating d destruction done by Eastern European migrants who not only bring drugs but human trafficking, prostitution n organized corporate fraud.
— musa ndlovu (@musandlovu11) October 30, 2019