The Constitutional Court has dealt a blow to the City of Cape Town and the government on the 2015 sale of a Tafelberg site in Sea Point.
GOOD Secretary-General and City of Cape Town mayoral candidate Brett Herron has warned that the City risks another court defeat if it proceeds with the controversial sale of the Good Hope Centre without heeding last week’s landmark Constitutional Court judgment on the Tafelberg property.
Herron said the unanimous July 2 ruling, which declared the 2015 sale of the Tafelberg School site in Sea Point unlawful, should serve as a warning to Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and the DA-led City administration. According to Herron, the judgment reinforces the constitutional duty of government to use well-located public land to advance affordable housing and undo apartheid-era spatial inequality.
“If the City ignores this judgment, it risks being rapped over the knuckles again,” Herron said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
The Constitutional Court’s decision in Adonisi and Others v Minister for Transport and Public Works, Western Cape and Others brought to an end nearly a decade of litigation over the Western Cape government’s decision to sell the former Tafelberg Remedial School site to the Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School for R135 million.
