Don’t you guys see the pattern? When the DA won the Western Cape, Cape Town became unaffordable overnight, house prices exploded and black people were priced out, pushed to the margins of a city we built.
Then the DA won Tshwane and the same thing happened: insane levies, property prices shooting up in places like Pretoria East, public streets closed off, boomed estates created, whole areas effectively locked away for a few.
Now Helen Zille is coming for Johannesburg, now this is our HEART!!…
If you dare hand her Joburg, it’s the same script all over again. Our three best cities captured through pricing, zoning, and exclusion. This isn’t coincidence, it’s strategy. Racial segregation!
If Johannesburg falls, spatial apartheid is back, not with laws, but with money and ownership of this country will be completely out of reach for the black people.
Yoh im begging you JOHANNESBURG PEOPLE. DO NOT VOTE FOR DA 😭
Before you vote this week, remember that the Concourt ruled that in the WC the DA perpetuates apartheid spatial planning whose intent is to keep blacks in the outskirts of the city of Cape Town. They do this by selling public land to commercial interests instead of public good
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