For only R1,016 a year an exclusive sports club within walking distance of Cape Town’s CBD has sole access to land larger than four rugby fields.
This prime piece of real estate in Green Point – a bowling club with a green of 40,000m² – is leased from the City of Cape Town. A small part of it is used infrequently, while most of the space is not used at all.
The land, in a former whites-only area, was one of many sites that could be better used to serve all the people of Cape Town, said researcher Nick Budlender from the organisation Ndifuna Ukwazi...