Joint statement: Open letter to Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis

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17 October 2025  Dear Geordin Hill-Lewis, Equal Education (EE), the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) are appalled  by your recent remark dismissing spatial apartheid as mere ‘propaganda language that is no longer rooted in reality.’ From where we stand, working with communities on the ground, alongside parents and learners across Cape Town and…

Cape Town’s Housing Crisis: Endless Evictions and Inadequate Solutions 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 20 August 2025 The Cape Town inner-city homelessness crisis is still characterised by the continued displacement, and an increase of fenced off public spaces. These makeshift measures do not address the systemic problem, that is a critical lack of well-located, affordable housing with security of tenure.  Eviction processes compel the municipality to…