GOOD Statement by Axolile Notywala,
GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor
4 December 2025
Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Cape Town Council Meeting
Speaker, on 22 August 2024, when this item was tabled for public participation, we opposed and rejected it as the GOOD Party because it said nothing about what will happen to the close to 900 people and their families who have made that building a home.
We will continue to oppose any sale or release of land that will lead to more homelessness, landlessness, and that violently displaces Black and Coloured people and relegates them to the peripheries, like in the Apartheid days, as is a regular occurrence in Cape Town today.
I welcome the fact that MMC Carl Pophaim has finally come to his senses and included an amendment and recommendation towards accommodating the families currently living at the Woodstock Hospital building, famously known as the Cissie Gool House. In this regard, we are in support of this item in principle. We continue to say: LAND FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT.
While I have a few seconds of my speaking time, it would be remiss of me not to highlight, again, your massive failures in relation to social housing administration in the City of Cape Town. I implore you, MMC
Carl Paphaim, and the Human Settlements Directorate to come to your senses and pay back the money owed to DCI tenants by the City of Cape Town. Money you unlawfully overcharged poor and working people through business tariffs instead of residential tariffs.
You and your families will all be enjoying the December holidays, while the DA’s political and administrative negligence and failures in Cape Town have left pensioners and hundreds of working people living at DCI poorer and struggling to survive in this expensive City that caters more for tourists than it does for its locals.
Pay back the money to DCI tenants now!
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