HumanRightsDay: Around 200 ReclaimCT activists took over Rondebosch Golf Course to protest City’s failure to redistribute public land for affordable housing. CapeTimesSA VIDEO: d7e7r7
Cape Town – Around 200 Reclaim the City activists took over Rondebosch Golf Course on Thursday to protest the City of Cape Town’s failure to redistribute public land for affordable housing.
Neilson has previously commented about releasing City-owned land, including golf courses, for affordable housing. "We are here at the clubhouse explaining to golfers why this land should be released," said Mashele. "There are more than 200 of us here, with flags, placards and banners." Reclaim the City's full statement said: "As we commemorate Human Rights Day, we remember how our parents and grandparents struggle against discrimination and an oppressive racist regime. They knew that there could be no justice and equality without the return of the land.
"Rondebosch Golf Course is as big as 45 soccer fields and could house thousands of families. Instead, it has been leased to a private club for R1 000 a year, where membership costs R15 750 a year.
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