Inside Cape Town’s social housing struggle
The legal battle between housing activists and the Western Cape government and City of Cape Town is over. But pressing issues around the provision of social housing remain
09 May 2024 - 05:02
A stone’s throw from the V&A Waterfront and a short walk from the Sea Point Promenade, the old Helen Bowden Nurses Home is a site of struggle. For seven years, the government-owned building, now known as Ahmed Kathrada House, has been home to an unlawful occupation by activists pushing for subsidised housing in the Cape Town CBD. So too has the nearby Woodstock Hospital, renamed after another struggle hero, Cissie Gool.
The two occupations are a direct response to the Western Cape government selling an empty plot of land — the Tafelberg site — in the wealthy suburb of Sea Point...
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