The City of Cape Town Continuing Misdirection, Criminalisation of Poverty, and Abdication of Constitutional Dut

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Press Release for Immediate Release: 06 October 2026 In a press statement (“CITY CONDEMNS LATEST CYNICAL ATTEMPTS TO DELAY TRANSNET’S CULEMBORG EVICTION – 5 Oct 2026”), the City of Cape Town and Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Ald JP Smith, launched an aggressive attack on 266 indigent residents seeking leave to appeal an…

NDIFUNA UKWAZI STRONGLY REJECTS THE OUTCOME AND JUDGMENT IN THE TRANSNET EVICTION MATTER

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Ndifuna Ukwazi expresses profound concern at the Western Cape High Court judgment delivered on 21 July 2026 ordering the eviction of over 161 occupiers from Transnet-owned land in Woodstock and Salt River in circumstances where the City of Cape Town refused as a “principled” stance to provide emergency accommodation to people who would be rendered homeless by the eviction.

Bromwell Street Case heads to Constitutional Court in challenge to the constitutionality of the City of Cape Town’s response to emergency housing needs

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PRESS STATEMENT: 22 February 2024 The Constitutional Court will hear the Bromwell Street matter on Tuesday, 27th February 2024, marking a critical juncture in the fight for housing justice and tenant rights. At the heart of the case lies the constitutionality of the City of Cape Town’s housing programme and its actions in responding to…

Another lost opportunity to build well-located affordable housing! 

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Press Statement: 14 September 2022 A City of Cape Town inclusionary housing policy that was to be finalised in 2021, again delays the building of inner city affordable housing and disrupt spatial apartheid.    For the last five years, Ndifuna Ukwazi has been monitoring and objecting to  development  applications made to the Municipal Planning Tribunal,…