Activist group heading to ConCourt to challenge CT property sale it wants earmarked for housing
The Western Cape government sold the Tafelberg site to a private developer in 2015.
The Constitutional Court has yet to hand down any judgments in 2024. Picture: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp
CAPE TOWN - Land rights advocacy group Ndifuna Ukwazi is heading to the Constitutional Court to challenge the sale of a Cape Town property that it wants earmarked for affordable housing.
The Western Cape government sold the Tafelberg site to a private developer in 2015.
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Local housing activists lost their case to have the old school grounds in Sea Point converted to social housing blocks when the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) granted the provincial administration rights to sell the property.
Ndifuna Ukwazi's Disha Govender said: "The call that we make is that there's public land, and yet there's a housing crisis, and the call that we make is that the public land be used to develop well-located housing so that we can start addressing the issues of the housing, as well as segregation that still persists in the City of Cape Town."