Fed Up With Promises Of Housing: Langa Residents March To Cape Town Civic Centre

Words : By Mary-Anne Gontsana / GroundUp

Langa residents marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre on Thursday to demand clarity on who is to benefit from a planned housing development in their ward - ward 51.

Most of the demonstrators live in apartheid era hostels or are backyarders.

Residents are fed up with promises from the City, said Sonwabo Nana. He said they had chosen Thursday, as they understood the mayor would be at a council meeting in the Civic Centre.

Nana said in 2015 the City had promised residents that phase 2 of a housing project would commence after the construction of the Hamilton Naki Square flats, but to date nothing had happened.