Cape Town’s informal settlements and the spatial injustice they represent became the focus of the local government election campaign over the weekend with political parties and candidates all addressing the issue.
PAC Robert Sobukwe Branch Chairperson Nyameko Sinandile said he would be campaigning on the slogan: No land, No houses, No vote for ANC and DA councillors on November 1.
Campaigning to represent Ward 94 in Khayelitsha, Sinandile said the City and the province must agree to rezone the open spaces of land for houses for the poorest of the poor and by so doing create more housing opportunities, especially for the youth. In a statement on the issue, Good Party leader Patricia De Lille said: “Nowhere is our apartheid heritage more painfully visible than in the spatial layout of our towns and cities.
“Deliberately designed to divide the population, 27 years of democracy have failed to break this urban pattern of injustice. We say, public land must be used for public good. Maintaining the apartheid shape of our urban areas is a gross injustice,” said De Lille.
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