LIVE AND LOCAL: ConCourt uses Tafelberg ruling to slam city and province over poor housing record
Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit · 3 July 2026 · 8m
Speaker 1: Good morning, Cape Town with John Maatham in for Leicester Kibatt. Speaker 2: six seven, Join the conversation on k Talk. Speaker 1: Landmark ruling from the concurt yesterday. It goes back to the decision of the provincial Speaker 1: government to sell the Tafelberg site to a day school, which was sanctioned as being Speaker 1: illegal unconstitutional by the High Court, but the Supreme Court of Appeal disagreed with the Speaker 1: High Court, and now the Constitutional Court has disagreed with the Supreme Court of Appeal Speaker 1: and has said both the Western k Provincial government and the City of Cape Town Speaker 1: have failed in their constitutional duty to address Aparte's spatial legacy by providing affordable housing Speaker 1: province must provide to the Western Cape High Court within three months a program of Speaker 1: action what it is going to do to give effect to the Concord's ruling. Infrastructure Speaker 1: MEC for the Western Cape. Tertius Swimmers joins us now Turtius good morning. Speaker 2: And good morning, and good morning to all of your listeners. Speaker 1: implement it. And I wonder Tersius if in anticipation of the ruling possibly going this Speaker 1: way, there has been some preparatory work done already which will make the achievement of Speaker 1: the court ordered deadline more possible. Speaker 2: Well. Indeed, for the last seven years actually i've had this portfolion. We've been implementing Speaker 2: Founder's Garden. Earlier this year we lunched press Switch. We also launched the Leulupe Inner Speaker 2: City Affordable Housing Development Scheme. We have a few other programs in our partforms. Indeed, Speaker 2: we are ahead of schedule. We are ready to submit even in advanced program in Speaker 2: the…
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