CAPE TOWN – Western Cape Premier Allan Winde has refuted allegations from housing activists, Reclaim the City, that he has been ignoring their proposals for social housing in the province.
Public order police had to intervene at around 2 am on Sunday night, after about 200 protestors tried to enter the Premier’s official residence at Leeuwenhof.
Reclaim the City said the protest was to highlight various concerns about a “housing crisis” in the Western Cape.
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Head of political organising at Ndifuna Ukwazi, Buhle Booi, said that Reclaim the City organised the protest because their pleas to Premier Alan Winde had fallen on deaf ears.
“We’ve been saying that we are providing solutions to the Premier and he’s blatantly ignored the proposals that we’ve made to him.”
Winde hit back at Reclaim the City, saying they were delaying the development of social housing in Cape Town.
“We still can’t seem to get these very same organisations to leave the illegally occupied places that are earmarked for the very reason that they are protesting… For social housing, and affordable housing.”Â
Winde said he was looking forward to meeting with Reclaim the City on “First Thursday” later this week.
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