He said the ANC would expropriate land in urban areas in Cape Town and hand it over to domestic workers and working class people who were forced to take "dangerous" forms of public transport to work.
Slogans on some of the posters said "Hands off Bo-Kaap".
A large number of protesters held up posters to demand that "liquor vendors" be left alone.
They said that if liquor vendors weren't allowed to sell alcohol in townships then they would not allow wholesalers such as Pick n Pay to operate there.
Rasool pleaded with the crowd to vote for the ANC in the upcoming elections saying, "This is not the Zuma ANC. This is the Ramaphosa ANC."
Protesters came from as far away as George.
For most of them the real issues were around housing and service delivery.
Mervin Olivier was one of 45 protesters who arrived from George. He said that their grievances were about corruption related to housing in the Garden Route town.
"They are evicting people in George," said Olivier.
Thobani Mooi was another protester who came from a farming area in Drakenstein municipality where he said people were being evicted by Zille's government.
"We have lost hope in the premier. We are waiting, the people of the Western Cape, to vote her out and her cabinet," said Mooi.
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