Cape Town mayor Helen Zille should condemn the "naked racism" underpinning the invasion of newly-built homes at Delft, Thubelisha Homes said on Thursday.
"[She] has said nothing about the naked racism that has underpinned the invasion; the ugly fact that coloured people were encouraged to grab resources ahead of African people," Thubelisha regional manager Xhanti Sigcawu said in a statement.
Thubelisha is the state-owned company running the N2 Gateway housing project, of which the Delft houses form part.
They were occupied last month by local residents, including backyard dwellers, who defeated a bid to evict them.
They said they did not see why the homes should go to residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement, when some of them had been on council waiting lists for decades.
Thubelisha is expected to bring a fresh eviction application in the Cape High Court on Tuesday.
Sigcawu said Zille had made no public pronouncement on the arrest of Democratic Alliance councillor Frank Martin for allegedly inciting the invasion.
He said she was aware that the Delft homes were allocated on a 70:30 basis to residents of informal settlements along the N2, such as Joe Slovo, and backyard dwellers from the Delft area.
He noted that Zille said in a newspaper article this week that the country's flawed housing policy was at the root of the Gateway problems.
In fact, it was a project from which all spheres of government were learning valuable lessons "to be used in housing the nation of tomorrow within the spirit of cooperative governance".
He appealed to Zille to release well-located land in the city, on which Thubelisha was ready to build sustainable human settlements.
"The lack of land being made available is one of the biggest hindrances we have encountered on the project," he said. - Sapa
"[She] has said nothing about the naked racism that has underpinned the invasion; the ugly fact that coloured people were encouraged to grab resources ahead of African people," Thubelisha regional manager Xhanti Sigcawu said in a statement.
Thubelisha is the state-owned company running the N2 Gateway housing project, of which the Delft houses form part.
They were occupied last month by local residents, including backyard dwellers, who defeated a bid to evict them.
They said they did not see why the homes should go to residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement, when some of them had been on council waiting lists for decades.
Thubelisha is expected to bring a fresh eviction application in the Cape High Court on Tuesday.
Sigcawu said Zille had made no public pronouncement on the arrest of Democratic Alliance councillor Frank Martin for allegedly inciting the invasion.
He said she was aware that the Delft homes were allocated on a 70:30 basis to residents of informal settlements along the N2, such as Joe Slovo, and backyard dwellers from the Delft area.
He noted that Zille said in a newspaper article this week that the country's flawed housing policy was at the root of the Gateway problems.
In fact, it was a project from which all spheres of government were learning valuable lessons "to be used in housing the nation of tomorrow within the spirit of cooperative governance".
He appealed to Zille to release well-located land in the city, on which Thubelisha was ready to build sustainable human settlements.
"The lack of land being made available is one of the biggest hindrances we have encountered on the project," he said. - Sapa
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