Campaign organisation Reclaim the City have not given up their fight with the Western Cape government over the sale of the Tafelberg site in Cape Town.
On Friday the Ndifuna Ukwazi Law Centre, representing Reclaim the City, brought an appeal before the Cape Town High Court to review the decision in which "Premiere Helen Zille sold [out] poor and working-class residents".
The site, in Sea Point, was once used as a high school, but was sold to the Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School for R135-million in March, following a campaign lasting more than a year by Reclaim the City to halt the sale.
The organisation wanted the site to develop affordable housing for poor and working-class black and coloured people to make the city centre more inclusive.
The NGO said on Friday that all efforts had "fallen on deaf ears".
"Premier Zille and her cabinet have demonstrated that our voices were not heard or considered.
"Her spurious justification for selling the site will now be tested," Reclaim the City said.
"Why do poor and working-class people have to take their own government to court to ensure that well-located public land is used for the public good?"
Ndifuna Ukwazi will argue that both the province and the city had failed in their constitutional obligations to redress spatial apartheid and "to give effect to the right of poor and working-class people to access land and housing in well-located areas".
Spokesman for the province, Michael Mpofu, could not be reached for comment.
- TMG Digital/TimesLIVE
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