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No-shows at parliamentary briefing on Tafelberg

Provincial government and Social Housing Regulatory Authority fail to attend

Housing activists celebrate the Constitutional Court ruling on the Tafelberg site last month. The Western Cape provincial government declined to attend a parliamentary committee meeting on the issue on Wednesday. Archive photo: Matthew Hirsch
The Western Cape government declined to attend a parliamentary portfolio committee meeting on Wednesday to discuss the implications of the landmark Tafelberg judgment.
Last month, the Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in the Tafelberg case, ruling that the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape government were constitutionally obliged to provide affordable housing in and near the city centre.
The judgment came after a decade-long campaign challenging the provincial government’s sale of the former Tafelberg School site in Sea Point. The sale has since…

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