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Reclaim The City

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Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert
ACCOUNTABILITY

Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality

Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town

  • Charles Leonard
7 min read
The deadlock at the Nelson Mandela Bay metro municipality, with damaging consequences for municipal performance, reaffirms the urgency for the government to act on its own proposal.
BULELANI QOLANI

Court must declare Cape Town’s ‘inhuman’ demolitions, evictions illegal, says law centre

The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions

  • Lester Kiewit
5 min read
On Human Rights Day, Reclaim the City took over Rondebosch Golf Course to protest the City of Cape Town’s failure to redistribute public land for affordable housing.
APARTHEID SPATIAL PLANNING

New housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers

City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report

  • Steve Kretzmann
5 min read