The Development Action Group along with several land and housing non-governmental organisations and activists are calling for the release of state-owned underutilised military land to address the City’s housing crisis.
Matlhodi Maseko
accused Patricia de Lille of deliberately stalling inner-city housing opportunities.
Maseko said De Lille s department holds the key to unlock tracts of land, which stretch from Simons Town to Camps Bay.
De Lille accused Maseko of lying and called her a scripted experiment .
The acrimonious relationship between Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille and the DA in the Western Cape has taken another turn after provincial legislature member, Matlhodi Maseko, accused the minister of deliberately stalling inner-city housing opportunities in the province.
Maseko released a statement while Premier Alan Winde was answering questions in a house sitting.
Maseko claimed the greatest obstacle to unlocking transformative inner-city housing opportunities is the national Department of Public Works and Infrastructure.
In the eyes of the NGO Ndifuna Ukwazi, suburbs such as Woodstock, Salt River, Maitland and Brooklyn do not form part of the central Cape Town area.
For them, the N1 and M3 are impenetrable barriers, Voortrekker and Koeberg Roads do not exist, and building social housing near to the Cape Town CBD, where property prices and available land make this viable, somehow doesn’t facilitate access to the inner city. Maverick Citizen, 15 March 2021).
To sustain this untruth, Ndifuna Ukwazi has gone so far as to conjure their own “central Cape Town” precinct, the borders of which irrationally exclude all historically “non-white” suburbs adjacent to the CBD.