Reclaim the City

Searle Street, District Six history in 30 seconds! The Cape Town Magistrates’ Court has granted an eviction order, forcing these families to vacate by March 2026. Save Searle Street families. Sign the petition here: awethu.amandla.mobi/petitions/stop…

CISSIE GOOL HOUSE WELCOMES THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN COUNCIL’S IN-PRINCIPLE DECISION TO DISPOSE OF THE LAND.

A thank you from RTC #CGHFireMay2025

[PRESS STATEMENT] Please read our media statement on the #NationalDialogue currently taking place. bit.ly/41LeTfd @ReclaimCT @abahlali_abm @MVC_SA @NdifunaUkwazi @r2kcampaign @womensassembly @SERI_RightsSA @WorkersWorldMed

Quick reminder: Tomorrow morning (9:30 AM, Cape Town High Court), the IGH eviction case will be heard. We’re fighting this unfair eviction, and your support matters. Let’s stand together! #NoToEvictions

We’d like to thank everyone who contributed to cleaning up Irene Grootboom House (formerly 104 Darling Street). The residents deeply appreciate your efforts.

In honour of Women’s Day 2025, and to celebrate excellence in filmmaking from African women, The Ladima Foundation is proud to announce a special once-off screening of the winning film “Mother City,” a South African film directed by Pearlie Joubert and Miki Redelinghuys and produced alongside Khetiwe Ngcobo. “With riveting intimacy and cinematic boldness, Mother City illuminates the human cost of policy failure and economic exclusion in one of the world’s most unequal cities. The film gives voice to a vision for a just and equal Cape Town, where the legacy of apartheid is not only acknowledged, but actively redressed. It asks us to reckon with the deep fault lines left unhealed by three decades of democracy—and dares us to imagine a different, more inclusive future. For its fearless storytelling, its urgent political relevance, and its moving portrait of dignity, resistance, and hope, Mother City is the recipient of the Adiaha Award.” - Ladima Foundation The film starts in 2016 when the Western Cape government sold the Tafelberg School, earmarked for affordable housing, to a private developer. This careless disregard of desperate housing needs gave birth to the social justice movement, “Reclaim the City”. Mother City follows, over 6 years, the David and Goliath battle in a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to @ReclaimCT webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?…

Jodi Windvogel’s Life Under Occupation: inside Cissie Gool House and Cape Town’s housing crisis – in pictures Children play in the hallway of Cissie Gool House theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

Reclaim the City supports HOME exhibition amplifying the call for housing justice

A fire broke out at Cissie Gool House early this morning. The flames were contained to one section of the building, and thankfully, no injuries were reported. However, several families have lost their homes.

👏🏽🎥Congratulations to the production team of the SA documentary, Mother City, on receiving the prestigious President Thomas Sankara Award last week at the 2025 edition of FESPACO in Burkina Faso🇧🇫. The film is about the struggle for affordable housing in Cape Town. #LoveSAFilm

The @CityofCT has proposed the redevelopment of a 66-hectare piece of land currently used by the King David Mowbray Golf Course and Clyde Pinelands Association Football Club. @GroundUp_News @MattHirsch08 reports ~ groundup.org.za/article/mixed-…

Legal teams setting up for the Constitutional Court hearing on #Tafelberg School site and the fight for spatial justice. This case has the potential to define that housing rights go beyond reasonable & progressive access to housing & that it includes a duty on the state to use public land to address apartheid’s spatial plan. #WherePeopleLivesMatters

The Tafelberg case has reached its final stage at the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country. Judgment has been reserved. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has supported us on this journey. But this moment demands that we organise beyond the courts. We call on the Province to make a clear and decisive commitment to releasing the Tafelberg site for affordable housing—vague promises are not enough. Poor and working-class people cannot live on the housing waiting list. We will issue a thorough press statement soon.

In solidarity at the ConCourt with @NdifunaUkwazi and #ReclaimtheCity. #SpatialApartheid #Socialhousing #CapeTownInnerCity

@NdifunaUkwazi @ReclaimCT The @CityofCT submits there’s no obligation on them to address spatial apartheid. 🤯

This morning the Constitutional Court will hear the landmark Tafelberg case. Court proceedings will be live streamed here: youtube.com/live/VJnkmGSBG… @ReclaimCT

We call for the Tafelberg site to be released for housing and demand a firm commitment from the government to ensure that the land is used to address the pressing need for affordable housing in Cape Town.

This will be followed by a screening of the Tafelberg Journey at the Sea Point Methodist Church, where participants will also engage in discussions on the legal arguments that will be presented before the Constitutional Court.

Today, Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi are in Sea Point as part of preparations for the Tafelberg case, which will be heard at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, 11 February 2025.