URBAN FRINGES: How a protest movement led to 700 people making an unused city hospital their home By Tessa Knight
How a protest movement led to 700 people making an unused city hospital their home By Tessa Knight • 26 February 2019 Youth Co-ordinator and Reclaim the City leader Shaneeka Abdullah sits in the crèche she built with one of the residents’ child, nicknamed Boy Boy, on 21 February 2019. Photo: Tessa Knight Three years after the formation of Reclaim the City, the social action group is still fighting for redistribution of underused land in inner cities.
Residents of Cissy Gool House are not interested in moving outside of the city. “ We will not go to Blikkiesdorp or Wolwerivier; we won’t go,” said Hendricks. “Our history is here and we work here, but we can’t live here. The City doesn’t want us to live here.” The issue of land and housing in the City of Cape Town is, as Hendricks says, “a burning issue”. In December 2018 Western Cape Premier Helen Zille approved the transformation of the Old Conradie Hospital in Pinelands into social housing.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Honda’s cute Urban EV to be builtDrawing on the cube design of eighties hatches, Honda is going into the future with a retro-inspired electric hatch.
Read more »
Joburg adopts inclusionary housing framework where rich and poor live side by sideThe densification process will be implemented in and around current nodes, as well as the new ‘general urban zone’ in areas like Orlando East in Soweto.
Read more »
Land is a huge issue in South Africa (SA) where racial inequality remains entrenched more than two decades after the end of apartheid when millions of the black majority were dispossessed of their land by a white minority.To resolve the racial inequality, it is now a reality that Section 25 of the SA Constitution will be amended to allow for expropriation of land without compensation (EWC).President Cyril Ramaphosa, State Of the Nation Address (Sona) 2019'The government has identified land parcels owned by the state for redistribution as part of accelerating land reform..Strategically located land will be released to address human settlements needs in urban and peri-urban areas... SA still had large areas of underutilised or unproductive land...Our policy and legislative interventions will ensure that more land is made available for agriculture, industrial development and human settlements... Agricultural exports are an important source of revenue for our economy, and develop
Read more »
The plan for totalitarian health controlThe Lancet Commission on Obesity recently issued a report recommending drastic interventions in the food industry, agriculture, transport sector, urban design and land use, in order to address the ‘triple-burden challenges of the Global Syndemic’, namely obesity, undernutrition and climate change.
Read more »