The truth of spatial apartheid — ConCourt delivers a history lesson to DA
A landmark Constitutional Court ruling confirms that Cape Town’s government perpetuates spatial apartheid, urging immediate action or equitable housing distribution in the city. In October 2025, Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis told Daily Maverick that he considered the term “spatial apartheid” a “kind of propaganda language that is no longer rooted in reality”. When a […] The post The truth of spatial apartheid — ConCourt delivers a history lesson to DA appeared first on The Namibian .
A landmark Constitutional Court ruling confirms that Cape Town’s government perpetuates spatial apartheid, urging immediate action or equitable housing distribution in the city.
In October 2025, Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis told Daily Maverick that he considered the term “spatial apartheid” a “kind of propaganda language that is no longer rooted in reality”. When a minor PR crisis ensued, he explained that the DA was not responsible for “perpetuating” the phenomenon. On Thursday, 2 July, in a historic judgment, nine judges of the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously that Hill-Lewis’s party was indeed responsible for its prolongation.
Handed down two days after a nationwide crisis that threatened to sink the country into a maelstrom of xenophobic and ethnic violence, the judgment represents the culmination of a decade-long battle waged on behalf of Cape Town’s marginalised and dispossessed.
As Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla, with the full support of the remaining eight judges on the Bench, noted in the second sentence of the opening paragraph:
