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Belhar residents demand halt to housing project

The community of Pentech say they instead want a school built on the land

Pentech resident Jacky Lemens at a meeting where residents were demanding a school be built in their community. Photos: Onesisa Khalipha

Residents of Pentech in Belhar are threatening court action to stop a state housing project.
They say they desperately need a school which they claim was promised by the City Of Cape Town decades ago.
The City says it engaged the community about the housing site and the project will deliver 216 housing units.
Meanwhile Pentech backyarders are caught between the demands of the community for a school and their need for housing.

Residents in Pentech in extension 23 of Belhar, Cape Town, say they have been pleading for a local school for decades. The community of about 4,000…

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