A High Court judgment has set aside the sale of the Tafelberg school property in Sea Point, ordering the Western Cape government and City of Cape Town to 'address the legacy of apartheid spatial planning in central Cape Town & its surrounds' | MurrayRSA
Mandisa Shandu, a director at Ndifuna Ukwazi, reads the High Court judgment to a crowd of jubilant supporters in Keerom Street in central Cape Town on Monday. Finally, the High Court has ruled, upholding the legal challenge by two not-for-profit organisations.
But this was challenged by the organisations Reclaim The City, Ndifuna Ukwazi and several individuals. Among them was Thomaza Angela Adonisi, a nurse, who collaborated with several"working class" residents to promote"the right to land" in Cape Town. "The Court found... that the relevant Provincial Regulations on which the Province was obliged to rely when concluding the sale were unconstitutional and invalid."
"The designation of such a zone would have entitled the Province to apply for a reconstruction grant from the national Department of Human Settlements in the event that it decided to develop affordable [housing] on the Tafelberg site."
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