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ICYMI: The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) was hailed as victorious a recent Equality Court ruling ordering the City of Cape Town to amend its housing allocation policy.

File: Beneficiaries received title deeds in Harare, and the City of Cape Town handed over the first 12 title deeds to beneficiaries in Phase Two of the R134,3 million Harare Infill housing project in Khayelitsha on 7th September 2022.File: Beneficiaries received title deeds in Harare, and the City of Cape Town handed over the first 12 title deeds to beneficiaries in Phase Two of the R134,3 million Harare Infill housing project in Khayelitsha on 7th September 2022.

The Centre represented a Cape Town woman who could not access a subsidy as the City’s policy stipulates that the applicant be a married male or a single woman who’s a breadwinner or has dependents residing with her. The Court ordered the City to update its records to reflect the husband and wife as equal beneficiaries. The case has been on the court roll for about 20 years.Director of the WLC, Seeham Sammai, says they successfully argued in court that the policy discriminated against women.

Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements, Malusi Booi, says it’s an old policy that no longer applies.

 

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