Western Cape MEC for human settlements Tertius Simmers refused to answer whether the province bought land for housing at the allegedly inflated price of R64.6 million because another parcel of land already owned by the City of Cape Town and earmarked for housing would turn Table View into "Khayelitsha by the sea".
Simmers was supposed to be responding to a question by GOOD MPL Brett Herron during Thursday's sitting of the Western Cape legislature.
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