GOOD Party: N2 wall construction seeks to ‘shield tourists from poverty’

The GOOD Party in the Western Cape is condemning plans to build a wall along the N2 near Cape Town International Airport.

The party said the R100 million project mirrors apartheid-era spatial logic, hiding poverty from tourists instead of addressing the root causes of crime.

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Spokesperson Siyabulela Mamkeli said crime in the area is a result of economic exclusion, years of Democratic Alliance (DA) mismanagement and historical apartheid geographical planning.
 
He is also calling on the City of Cape Town to account for the money spend on law enforcement deployments.
 
"GOOD demands answers. How much was spent on N2 law enforcement deployments, for how long and what real impact did they have? The city is building a wall to shield tourists from poverty.”