Housing crisis: Activists urge Ramaphosa to release vacant land to communities

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Several social justice organisations nationwide submitted requests to President Cyril Ramaphosa to donate 32 pieces of vacant and under-utilised public land to communities.

In Cape Town, the march moved from Mowbray to the president's official residence in Newlands.The organisations include Ndifuna Ukwazi, Inner-City Federation, Housing Assembly, Reclaim the City, Indibano Yabahlali and Intlungu YaseMatyotyombeni.Nikelwa Maqula, a land and housing activist, said the government was evading the question of land.

The State Land Disposal Act 48 of 1961 is a piece of apartheid-era legislation, which gives the president the power to donate, sell, lease or exchange any piece of public land in the country.

 

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