Housing Activists Demand Release Of Tafelberg Site In Latest Petition

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housing activists demand release of tafelberg site in latest petition

Another petition has landed at Premier Alan Winde's door, seeking his intervention to use prime provincial land in Sea Point for social housing, Cape {town} Etc reports.

A Constitutional Court ruling is still pending on the decision to sell the land to a private school in Sea Point.

The site has been the subject of a heated court battle between Reclaim the City and the Western Cape government.

In 2015, a controversy arose when the provincial government made the decision to sell prime real estate in Sea Point, opting to forgo its use for affordable housing development.

The provincial government owned the Tafelberg school property and sold it to Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School NPC in November 2015 for R135 million.