Reclaim the City and comrades from all around Cape Town have occupied the vacant Woodstock Hospital and Helen Bowden Nurses home, both of which are owned by the Western Cape province. The demand is for the City and Province to make a real commitment to desegregate the City #OccupyItAll
#OccupyItAll
We as Reclaim the City and comrades from all around Cape Town have occupied Woodstock Hospital and Helen Bowden Nurses home, both of which are provincially owned properties.
We need commitments not promises!
We are doing this to protest the unlawful sale of the Tafelberg site in Sea Point, which should be used for social housing, not sold to developers for profit. In defending the sale Province offered vague promises about developing the Woodstock Hospital and Helen Bowden sites. We need proper commitments and timelines for these sites and all inner city public land. If we don’t use our good public land to desegregate the city, we will replicate and reinforce the legacy of apartheid spatial planning. The time to act is now. You can read our full demands here: https://goo.gl/IGWdmF.
Desegregate Cape Town
Converting these land parcels, including the Tafelberg School, into affordable housing is the first step that the Province and City need to take to ensure that they fulfil their own mandates to redress Apartheid spatial planning. Helen Zille and her government need to take bold steps now! Because if not now, then when?
We need your Support
We are calling all supporters near and far to assist us in our fight for urban land justice. The occupations have been financially draining, and the costs are only likely to increase as the days go by. As a result, we are issuing a call to all supporters that are able to provide us with financial assistance for the following expenses:
Our first goal is to R10 000 to support the occupation. The dream goal is to raise R30 000, so that we can also help Reclaim The City with related campaigns, including opening an advice office for tenants. All help would be greatly appreciated.
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A campaign for affordable housing in Cape Town. Reclaim the City advocates tenant protection and mixed income development to undo apartheid spatial injustice.