Spatial integration within the inner city of Cape Town has been a burning issue between activists and local and provincial government for some time. During his State of the Province Address in Mitchells Plain on Thursday, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said illegal occupiers were preventing the provincial government from providing housing.
While there have been many occupations in the province, none irk the province more than Reclaim the City’s occupations of two provincially owned properties in the heart of the Cape Town CBD. Reclaim the City has occupied the vacant Helen Bowden Nurses Home and the former Woodstock Hospital which occupiers have renamed Ahmed Kathrada House and Cissie Gool House respectively.that no social housing had been built in the inner-city CBD over the past 25 years.
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