‘It’s a lie’ - Steenhuisen denies DA wants to use golf courses for housing
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says his comments about bulldozing golf courses to turn them into housing opportunities was taken out of context.
The DA earlier distanced itself from comments made by Steenhuisen after he reportedly gave the thumbs up for the City of Cape Town to use golf courses for housing opportunities in the city during an interview last week.
“It is a lie of the Freedom Front Plus and their mayoral candidate, who the took comment that I made about a single course in Cape Town, the River Club, were a mixed-use development is going to be developed,” Steenhuisen said in Upington on Monday.
Mixed-use areas may include any combination of housing, office, retail, medical, recreational or industrial components in one area.
Steenhuisen accused the FF+ are trying to stir up anger.
“The Freedom Front are now going around fear-mongering and trying to stir up anger, saying that we going to put low-cost housing on gold course, no one ever said that. Mixed-use developments are live work and play. There are many rich people who live on golf course.”
He added that it is about giving poor people an opportunity to be able to move closer to the city.
“Why should we not have mixed used developments on a place in The River Club where we going to bring people closer to the city and to be able develop job opportunities for them.”
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