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While over half a million Capetonians live in informal settlements, the Rondebosch Golf Club pays the City of Cape Town only R1 000 a month for the use of 450 000 square metres of well-situated land.

Two-thirds of the golf course is above the 100-year floodline, and Ndifuna Ukwazi calculates the land could offer 183,360 square metres of built space for a mainly residential development that includes communal space, offices, shops, schools, and social amenities.

The square meterage of individual units in the calculations ranges from 50m² for a market bachelor flat and 30m² bachelor for social housing, while a two-bedroom flat built for the market would be 70m² and one built for social housing would be 45m², which is the average size of an RDP house. Similar modelling is done for the Harrington Square parking lot, the seven parcels of land which are mostly used as parking lots on lower Buitengracht Street, and for the Green Point Bowling Green, which the report states deputy mayor Ian Neilson has publicly committed for social housing.

Over 500,000 of Cape Town’s four million residents are living in informal settlements, according to a. This figure does not take backyard dwellers into account.

 

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7015Hedvig you may find this an interesting read.

We must not entertain this Round n' Bosha Golf Club. Expropriate that land for da people or Okhupy (is it occupy) Now. Our Land Now!!

And how much does the club make in revenue to only pay R1 000?

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