Ndifuna Ukwazi Urges Bold, Racially-Targeted Action in Mowbray Golf Course Redevelopment

3 April 2025 Ndifuna Ukwazi welcomes the City of Cape Town’s plan to redevelop Mowbray Golf Course with 30% affordable housing but warns that without clear affordability measures, long-term protections, and racial redress, the project risks becoming mere ‘affordable housing tokenism.’ For 113 years, Mowbray Golf Course has symbolised exclusion, leased at a nominal rate…

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OCCUPIERS LEFT OUT IN THE RAIN AFTER ILLEGAL & VIOLENT EVICTION BY PRASA, RESULTING IN THE STABBING OF AN ELDERLY MAN

Press Release: 27 August 2024 Ndifuna Ukwazi has urgently sought a high court interdict against PRASA following the illegal eviction on 19 and 22 August of occupiers who had been living in informal structures and tents on Transnet-owned land for over 20 years. PRASA Protection Services and other security officers demolished homes, confiscated building materials…

CALLS ON THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN TO RETRACT LETTERS OF INTENTION TO SELL THE LONG-STANDING FAMILY HOME OF A WORKING CLASS FAMILY IN ATHLONE

7 August 2024 Press Release: For Immediate Release NDIFUNA UKWAZI CALLS ON THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN TO RETRACT LETTERS OF INTENTION TO SELL THE LONG-STANDING FAMILY HOME OF A WORKING CLASS FAMILY IN ATHLONE Mrs Jamielah Levy’s family has been living in Tancred Street, Athlone for the past 70 years. On 15 May 2024,…

NDIFUNA UKWAZI SEEKS INTERVENTION IN LANDMARK DISTRICT SIX CASE TO ADVOCATE FOR RACIAL REDRESS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Press Release 20 February 2024 Yesterday, 19 February 2024, Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) applied to the Western Cape High Court to intervene as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in a significant case concerning the historic District Six neighbourhood in Cape Town. The main application, launched by six families residing in Searle Street, District Six, on…