WATCH: #ReclaimTheCity activists dig foundations for houses at Green Point bowling greens | Cape Times

Cape Town – Reclaim the City activists have followed up their protest at the Rondebosch Golf Course in March by staging a protest at the bowling greens in Green Point on Wednesday, demanding it be used for affordable housing.

"Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson promised affordable housing on this for workers who keep the City in business. We can’t wait any longer. We are digging the foundations ourselves today!" "Like in other cities throughout the world, it is the working class that has been forced to live in the outskirts and in inhumane conditions. It is through our labour that the City of Cape Town was built, and yet there is still no place for us," Reclaim the City said in a statement.“There's not one black development for domestic workers or for lower income housing in this whole Sea Point area and that has been going on for way to long," Reclaim the City told the SABC.

Last year May, Reclaim the City announced: "Yesterday in writing from Ian Neilson and today on Kieno Kammies, the City of Cape Town just committed to develop affordable housing on Rasta Dolophini Site in Green Point – formerly the unused Bowling Greens!"

CapeTimesSA The City has (vaguely) committed the site for mixed-income development. These are the kinds of smart political actions needed to keep up the pressure up lest CityofCT drags its feet for 100 years at the cost of integration | houses | jobs | urban sprawl

CapeTimesSA It is trespassing and vandalism. On the other hand, what are CityofCT 's plans with that property?

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