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Ahmed Kathrada House: Leader Megan Bobotyana on fighting for dignity | SA News

‘There are no rich people without poor people … and that’s the reality. The poor people keep the economy running,’ says Megan Bobotyana, a Reclaim the City leader, living in a former nurses’ home in Green Point, Cape Town.

Megan Bobotyana is a leader of the community living in Ahmed Kathrada House, an occupied building in Green Point, Cape Town, that was taken over by the members of the housing rights group Reclaim the City during a series of demonstrations for affordable housing in 2017.

Before moving to the building, Bobotyana was just another young woman renting an apartment in Sea Point – attending university for…

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