LETTER: State should force military off government land
Patricia de Lille can and should help address the housing shortage in Cape Town
While she was Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille called on the national government to make available three vast pieces of nationally owned land in Cape Town: Ysterplaat, Wingfield and Youngsfield, for affordable housing. Now, in her role as public works minister in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet, she is in a unique position to influence the government on this issue.
During her term, De Lille rightly addressed the city council’s need to deal with the apartheid spatial-planning issue. We know the Cape Town council is giving this priority, but the matter of the huge tracts of central government-owned land in Cape Town cannot wait until the issue is resolved. This can be addressed now...
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