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Cape Town \u2013 Two years after the Western Cape High Court set aside the sale of the Tafelberg School site in Sea Point and no action from the premier, Ndifuna Ukwazi has renewed calls to Alan Winde to release the site to build affordable housing for the marginalised and advance a spatially just and inclusive city.<\/p>\n
The organisation said that despite the premier\u2019s commitment in 2019 and a 2016 feasibility study conducted by the provincial Department of Transport and Public Works, which concluded that the Tafelberg site was suitable for social housing, no brick had been laid.<\/p>\n
It said the provincial government was missing a critical opportunity to reverse apartheid spatial planning, and appealed to Winde to demonstrate leadership and show commitment in developing Tafelberg and other publicly owned parcels of land for affordable and social housing.<\/p>\n
Reclaim the City chapter leader Bevil Lucas said: \u201cIt is with dismay to realise the approach adopted in the post-apartheid society and how the DA is taking a political stance in upholding apartheid spatial planning in not committing itself to undo it, which is continuing to block people to live closer to the areas of work.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow is possible that close to 30 years after the end of apartheid, there isn\u2019t one site for the working class in Sea Point (or) Camps Bay?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe working class has to commute from the Cape Flats for almost two hours a day, and that cannot be acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n GOOD Party secretary-general Brett Herron said that when the provincial government turned its back on its obligation and promised to develop affordable rental housing at the Tafelberg site, the abandoned Helen Bowden Nurses Home in Green Point was occupied.<\/p>\n \u201cMeantime, acting with huge resentment, the Western Cape government disconnected basic services to the old nurses\u2019 home occupied by about 1 000 adults and children.<\/p>\n \u201cPolitical will is absent and restructuring government is just another illusion of something being done. Providing well-located affordable housing doesn\u2019t need a government department to restructure.<\/p>\n \u201cIt could have been achieved over the past 30 years since the Group Areas Act was abolished, but it hasn\u2019t been because there\u2019s no will to do so,\u201d Herron said.<\/p>\n Odette Cason, from the Office of the Premier, said the property was returned to the provincial government\u2019s property portfolio, which is considering its best use in line with its priorities to deliver jobs, safety and well-being in the province.<\/p>\n \u201cOn the judgment handed down by the Western Cape High Court on the Tafelberg matter, we embrace the finding that there is a constitutional obligation to redress the effects of spatial apartheid.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are fully committed to addressing spatial apartheid and providing social housing in well-located areas,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is our view that the court made a range of orders that impact the ability of the Western Cape government to govern as an independent sphere as envisaged by the Constitution. It is for this reason, among others set out in our response, that we sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal,\u201d Cason said.<\/p>\n [email protected]<\/p>\n Cape Argus<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – Advertisement – Cape Town \u2013 Two years after the Western Cape High Court set aside the sale of the Tafelberg School site in Sea Point and no action from the premier, Ndifuna Ukwazi has renewed calls to Alan Winde to release the site to build affordable housing for the marginalised and advance a spatially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/f497c2d2-651d-56ca-a492-b51b2933dc73.jpg\")