South Africa: Campaigners Unmoved As Province Claims It Wants to Preserve Cape Town's Philippi Horticultural Area

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The first of two days' litigation between the City of Cape Town, the province and the Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign, left campaigners furious when the spokesperson for the MEC for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning tried to tell the media the province would preserve the area.

Read Daily Maverick's earlier report on the Philippi Horticultural Area case here.

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