MEC Simmers says ConCourt ruling reinforces the need for accelerated affordable housing and mixed-use development [SOUND]

# Western Cape MEC of Infrastructure, Tertuis Simmers, says they will consider the implications of the Constitutional Court judgment on Tafelberg and the delivery of affordable housing in well-located areas. The case centres on the sale of the former Tafelberg School site in Sea Point. The court found that the province and City of Cape Town failed to meet their constitutional obligations to address apartheid-era spatial inequality. Simmers says the ruling reinforces the need for accelerated affordable housing: