In the face of a growing housing crisis, the City of Cape Town looks set to extend a lease agreement for the Rondebosch Golf Course.
A few weeks ago, the City invited interested parties to submit comments or objections to plans to renew the lease of 45.99 hectares of public land to the Southern Suburbs golf club.The use of the land, equivalent to 45 rugby fields, will come at a cost of R88.17 a month .Social justice organisations have voiced concerns that the continuation of the lease would be tantamount to the City subsidising the rich by renting out the prime state land at that amount for private use.
Clark also challenged the huge financial benefits of the lease with regard to maintenance and operational costs of the golf courses, as claimed by the City. Cities such as Hong Kong in China and Canberra in Australia that have public land-leasing programmes use the money to fund infrastructure. On Human Rights Day last year, activists from Reclaim the City occupied the Rondebosch Golf Club to highlight the City’s failure to redistribute the public land.
“If we keep renewing these leases without considering their impact, then we are just reproducing colonial and apartheid spatial planning. This is simply unacceptable in a constitutional democracy that prioritises spatial justice,” Clark added.
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