The Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the Bromwell Street community’s case against the City of Cape Town. The residents accused the City of replicating apartheid era spatial planning by relocating the poor far from the CBD. The applicants in the matter, who have lived for generations in row cottages in Bromwell Street, Salt River, are appealing a decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) delivered in February last year. That SCA order had permitted the City to evict the Bromwell Street families and relocate them to informal settlements, such as Wolwerivier.

Guest: Disha Govender, Ndifuna Ukwazi attorney