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Judgment has been reserved in the case where Reclaim the City (RTC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) returned to the Western Cape High Court to argue against the the Province and the City’s applications to appeal against the ’Tafelberg judgment' before the Supreme Court of Appeal. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA) Judgment reserved in Tafelberg appeal hearing Share Cape Town - A high court judge has said the provincial government is split on the Tafelberg issue between a faction that wants change but keeps being rebuffed by a faction that wants to retain the status quo. Jud...

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...