DECEMBER 2016
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Dunoon residents lose out in City of Cape Town’s new boundaries ISOLABANTU REPORTER
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esidents of Dunoon will have to travel 35km to Atlantis to register housing applications or apply for municipal jobs, in terms of a new City of Cape Town plan for subcouncil boundaries approved at the end of October. The plan reduces subcouncil 1 – which previously included part of Milnerton, Table View, Melkbosstrand, Dunoon, Parklands and Atlantis – to just Atlantis, Melkbosstrand and Dunoon.
Milnerton and Table View are now part of subcouncil 3, along with areas such as Edgemead and Platteklip – suburbs situated across the N1 highway. It is subcouncils that receive the municipal budget, and so the selection of wards that make up subcouncils is greatly contested. Residents of Milnerton, Table View and Dunoon believe that the new subcouncil boundaries will silence their communities and split up civic alliances. The City of Cape Town is accused of not following its
own development plan and attempting to “strategically align voting units”. But the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services, Xanthea Limberg, has denied this. The change in subcouncils is “definitely not to silence our communities”, she said, adding that representation on subcouncils is determined by the number of votes a political party receives. Residents were told about the proposed change to subcouncils on September 22 and had until October 12 to comment on
these proposals or suggest changes. The two options they were offered – a DA one and an ANC one – were essentially the same for these areas. Lubabalo Makeleni, the ANC councillor for ward 104, which includes Dunoon, Rivergate and the Stables, opposed his party’s proposal. Instead he wanted the Parklands and Table View wards to be clustered with his ward. ~continuied on page 3