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The Reclaim the City pressure group is one of the groups demanding that the Table Mountain school grounds in Sea Point not be sold and be developed for social housing. Photo: Daneel Knoetze The Western Cape High Court granted both the Provincial Government and the City of Cape Town leave to appeal the Supreme Court of Appeal against certain orders made in the initial judgment delivered last year August. The Western Cape Government took the court's decision on appeal last year saying the judgment amounts to "judicial overreach".  A ruling last year found the City of Cape T...

Picture: Daneel Knoetze Judges Patrick Gamble and Monde Samela presided over the Tafelberg case virtually and sat for several hours listening to arguments. The Western Cape government took the court's decision on appeal last year on the basis that the judgment amounted to "judicial overreach". Activists have been challenging the provincial government's decision to sell the Tafelberg site to the Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School for R135 million seven years ago. The land had previously been earmarked for affordable housing. Judgment in the case of the controversial sale of a piece of prime pr...