FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 08 September 2025
KHAYELITSHА, Cape Town – On Thursday, 11 September 2025, the Solidarity Space, supported by Ndifuna Ukwazi and My Vote Counts, will host a Ward Councillors’ Imbizo at the Oliver Tambo Community Hall in Khayelitsha.
This public meeting is designed to create a platform for meaningful engagement, where Ward Councillors and community members can openly discuss pressing issues face-to-face. Confirmed attendees include councillors from the ANC, DA, EFF, and PA.
The Solidarity Space is a collective of land and housing movements from across Cape Town, including Housing Assembly, Intlungu Yase Mtotyotombeni, Indibano Yabahlali, and Reclaim the City. The collective represents thousands of Black, Coloured, and Indian households who continue to endure undignified and inadequate housing, a stark reminder of apartheid’s scars that remain, unabated, 30 years into democracy.
At its core, the purpose of the Imbizo is to ensure accountability and transparency from elected Ward Councillors, while empowering communities to voice their concerns and priorities. This intervention is crucial for rebuilding trust between residents and their local government representatives ahead of the 2026 elections.
Together, we aim to lay the groundwork for a more responsive and transparent local government.
- Event Details:
- What: Ward Councillors’ Imbizo: Reclaiming Democracy from Below
- Who: The Solidarity Space, supported by Ndifuna Ukwazi and My Vote Counts, Community Members, and Ward Councillors.
- When: Thursday, 11 September 2025 | 10:00 – 15:00
- Where: Oliver Tambo Community Hall, Cnr Mew Way and Landsdowne Road, Khayelitsha
Media representatives are invited to attend. Interviews with community leaders and organisational representatives can be arranged upon request.
About the Organisers:
- The Solidarity Space is a coalition of grassroots movements fighting for urban land justice and dignified housing for the marginalised and working-class people of Cape Town.
- Ndifuna Ukwazi is a law and policy centre that works towards a more equal and just society through activism, research, and litigation.
- My Vote Counts is a non-profit that advocates and campaigns for transparency in political party funding, and electoral system changes to deepen democracy and ensure equal political influence for all citizens’ organisations that work to improve the accountability, transparency, and inclusiveness of elections and politics in South Africa.
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