GROUNDUP: Housing activists occupy Green Point bowling club By GroundUp GroundUp_News
Reclaim the City used Workers’ Day 2019 to step up its campaign for access to affordable housing near Cape Town’s city centre. The housing activist group occupied a lawn belonging to the Atlantic Green Point Bowling Club on Wednesday morning, 1 May.
Scores of activists attended the Workers’ Day protest wearing red T-shirts with the slogan “Land for people not profit”. SAPS and Metro police officers arrived at the scene and spoke briefly to the protesters. No arrests were made and the protest dispersed without incident in the late afternoon.
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