Sixty years after they were forcibly removed to Gugulethu by the apartheid regime in terms of the Group Areas Act some families are returning to Simon’s Town, while others haave accepted compensation.
Dr. Rick de Satge
Member of the Land Portal local knowledge engagement team developing country profiles for Southern, Central and Eastern Africa - developing country narratives and historical timelines for Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia ,Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Senior Research Associate with Phuhlisani NPC.
Curator of specialist Southern African land news and analysis website https://knowledgebase.land
Land linked Twitter account https://twitter.com/KnowledgebaseL
Urban Planning in the Global South (2018) co-authored with the late Vanessa Watson addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.