Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers
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.
With a full membership costing R15 750 a year, and fees of about R150 to play around in off-peak times, the golf course is inaccessible to the vast majority of residents, including those who live around it.
The golf club’s lease with the city is contained in a new report on city-owned land by civil society organisation Ndifuna Ukwazi, which also states that some of the best land in the city “is being used as a dog play park” for the @Frits Pet Hotel and Daycare Centre, described as the largest of its kind in the world.
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