Cape Town has a severe housing shortage, exacerbated by economic conditions following the Covid-19 lockdown which saw 109 illegal land occupations across the city in the past two months.
The reason given was the application received by King David Mowbray Golf Club to renew the lease “relates to a significant right to be granted the use and management of an immovable property asset, ie potentially being a period of more than three years and involving an asset value of over R10m”, and so must “first be placed before council for authority to advertise.
The city has since reconsidered the annual tariff for golf course leases. In February, at the time of the notice for renewal of the Rondebosch Golf Course lease, it was reported as R920 a year but in May it was increased by Council to R10,000 per year, excluding VAT. Calculations publicised by Ndifuna Ukwazi put the golf clubs’ proposed new rentals at R19.36 per hectare per month, and note this is less than the cost of two litres of milk.
Booi said “all workable options” were being considered “to see how to increase the affordable accommodation stock in Cape Town or to help enable the provision of more stock in the market”.An updated human settlements strategy that “clearly stipulates the city’s human settlements agenda” would be made public in September for civic engagement.
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