The leader of the GOOD Party, Patricia de Lille, says affordable housing in well-located areas is essential in addressing apartheid spatial planning.
She was addressing supporters in Cape Town on Monday.
The party supporters were demonstrating that land that is available in the city has not been developed. De Lille says 450 tracts of land are not being utilised for housing.
“There are many other buildings and pieces of land that could also be used. And so, that’s why we say they must stop lying and say we can’t continue to build and provide housing because we are waiting on national government. That’s not true. Here’s the truth, that they’ve got enough land to continue with their programmes. Whether it’s small or not” says De Lille.
LGE 2021 | Good Party leader Patricia de Lille calls for better housing in Cape Town
GOOD party aims to dismantle the apartheid legacy: De Lille
Earlier in the month, De Lille noted how the party aims to dismantle the legacy of apartheid.
She was speaking in Johannesburg at the launch of the party’s manifesto where she outlined its plans and revealed the party’s mayoral candidates.
In the 2019 national elections, the party obtained about 70 000 votes.
The party now hopes to achieve 25% of the votes in the local government elections.
De Lille says in dismantling the legacy of the apartheid regime, they will address housing and transport challenges, ensuring that services are closer to the people who need them.
“We will fix South Africa only when we achieve spatial justice, social justice, economic justice and environmental justice. It demands to breaking down the apartheid spatial planning and we all know that people of colour were put far away from cities and an indictment to us in our new democracy today is that 27 years after our democracy, people still live far away from work opportunities,” she adds.
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