a month agoEvery property for sale in Sea Point should carry a public land-provenance record, showing its title history and any record of forced removal, expropriation or restitution. Sea Point was racially cleared for white ownership. One documented community alone: 58 families, 286 people. All FORCIBLY removed Generations were torn from the neighbourhood and the coast, stripped of the opportunity to build and pass on wealth. They were pushed into the Cape Flats, while the land they were expelled from became some of the most valuable real estate in South Africa. And this sits on top of Cape Town’s history of slavery and coerced labour, including enslaved people whose skilled labour helped build this “beautiful” colonial city
