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.
Speaker, I thank the Minister for his reply, but I did not hear an answer. I heard a description of process. What this House needed was an explanation of failure.
Instead of drafting a short-term letting by-law designed to contribute to alleviating the crisis of unaffordability in the Cape Town housing market, the only beneficiary of the proposed by-law is the City itself, which will increase its income by charging slightly higher rates.
Last week, Western Cape MEC for Infrastructure Tertuis Simmers was at it again, making a fantabulous announcement about delivering around 12 000 new homes.
The Good Party has submitted a formal complaint to the Public Protector to investigate procedural irregularities by the City of Cape Town and its Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis relating to the City’s disposal of the Good Hope Centre.