With two weeks left to report to the Constitutional Court on its “management” of the affordable housing crisis in Cape Town, the Mayor is talking up a storm about densifying the Southern Suburbs, with no actual plans in place, while the City has quietly signed an eight-year lease extension for King David Mowbray Golf Club.
The GOOD Party in Drakenstein is demanding immediate action from the DA-led administration to unlock the electrification of Bakka Informal Settlement, where approximately 45 families continue to live without access to electricity despite a solution having been identified months ago.
Conradie Park was meant to be the proof of concept. The Minister has just given us the brochure. I would like to give this House the tenancy agreement.
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde and Mayor of Cape Town Geordin Hill-Lewis say the province’s 680 000 housing backlog, and increasing unaffordability, are products of inward migration due to their superb management.
A prime chunk of Milnerton real estate acquired nine years ago by the City of Cape Town specifically to alleviate overcrowding in Dunoon is now being sold to a private developer for a fat profit without the City having built a single home.
The provincial government's responsibilities in addressing the Western Cape's housing crisis, dismantling apartheid-era spatial planning and tackling the affordability crisis, and the progress the province has made in meeting these objectives.
The fire that ripped through the informal settlement known as BM Section on New Year's Day in 2013 killed five residents, destroyed about 1,000 shacks and left 3,000–4,000 people without any shelter.
The DA is on a privatisation roll, dismissing its constitutional obligations to address spatial injustice, selling off well-located publicly owned properties in Cape Town, and championing the out-sourcing of basic service provision in dysfunctional municipalities.
This handover is a profound realisation of the GOOD Party’s core vision and mission to advance social and spatial justice for working-class families. By delivering dignified shelter, we are actively dismantling spatial inequalities and building inclusive communities where citizens are empowered.
This province, like this city, is still living two realities: the well-serviced suburb, and the informal settlement on the urban edge, still waiting for water, sanitation, and a formal address decades after apartheid planning put it there.