The truth of spatial apartheid — ConCourt delivers a history lesson to DA
Daily Maverick | 03.07.2026 04:25
In October 2025, Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis told Daily Maverick that he considered the term “spatial apartheid” a “kind of propaganda language that is no longer rooted in reality”. When a minor PR crisis ensued, he explained that the DA was not responsible for “perpetuating” the phenomenon. On Thursday, 2 July, in a historic judgment, nine judges of the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously that Hill-Lewis’s party was indeed responsible for its prolongation.
