Reclaim the City, Ndifuna Ukwazi, and other land and housing social movements, alongside concerned citizens, are driven to address Cape Town's enduring housing crisis. This crisis, which disproportionately affects working-class black and coloured communities, has persisted for decades, rooted in the deep legacy of spatial apartheid that continues to shape our city.

We demand that Premier Alan Winde releases the Tafelberg site to the City of Cape Town for the development of urgently needed social housing. Since the advent of democracy, not a single affordable housing unit has been constructed in the inner city of Cape Town. This starkly highlights the City's and Province's failure to demonstrate any political will to address this issue.

We call for action, not empty promises! The provincial government has the power to initiate development on the Tafelberg site. The upcoming Constitutional Court challenge should not be used as an excuse for inaction. Nothing prevents Premier Winde from releasing Tafelberg for social housing today.

It's time to ensure secure and affordable homes for all Cape Town residents. Developing Tafelberg into social housing offers a crucial step toward building a city where everyone can live, work, and prosper.

We invite all residents and supporters to sign this petition, let us stand together in calling for public land to be used for its social good and for the people of Cape Town.

“We experienced 350 years of deliberate state action to create a housing system favoring the white minority at the expense of the black and coloured majority. Overcoming this will require equally intense and purposeful state intervention.”
— Nick Budlender, Ndifuna Ukwazi Researcher

Sign this petition to support the call for the release and development of the Tafelberg Site. 

To help us take this case to the Constitutional Court, please donate using the reference "Tafelberg" here. 

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