Who truly owns the future of Mitchells Plain? As the City of Cape Town proposes selling public land, Faiez Jacobs writes that the community must confront critical questions of justice and transparency.
Christel House in Ottery, Cape Town.
Every society eventually confronts a defining question:
Who owns the future?
Is it the people who have lived the struggle, carried the burden of apartheid spatial planning, and continue building communities under impossible circumstances? Or is it those with the strongest institutional networks, international capital and privileged access to government?
That question now stands before the people of Mitchells Plain.
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