Schubart Park

1 Fred Nagel - 2 years ago

While squatter camps pop up all over the city, literally hundreds of flats were forcibly evacuated and left to be destroyed. And now, as squatter camps are STILL popping up and expanding, these towers are left to rot. Not only these - look at Kruger Park just down the road to the West. Another few hundred apartments, allowed to be vandalised and destroyed beyond repair. Good job, ANC.

2 Baron Samedi - 4 years ago

This is one of the biggest disgraces involving public housing in Gauteng. These flats belong to the Tshwane Metropolitan Local Council and were inhabited since the project was completed in the early 1970s.

They were built as council housing, i.e. low-rental flats for poor people.

Five years ago the council announced that Schubart Park would be "renovated", giving them a pretext to evict all tenants - brutally.

The extent of the "renovations" involved locking off all the blocks and knocking out the external walls of the flats, thus rendering them uninhabitable. All work then inexplicably stopped, and Schubart Park became a dead area in the heart of the city.

We have recently heard that the then mayor, Ramakgopa, "let" these buildings and the entire area up to the showgrounds to some "friend" - for R100/month for 99 years.

The "friend" is obviously not interested in housing the poor.

If you want to quantify the extent of this catastrophe, count all the flats you see in one tower. Then multiply by 2 to take into account the ones on the other side. Then multiply by 4 for all the towers.

The result is the number of families unnecessarily consigned to some squatter camp by the municipality's financial shenanigans.

So long as this goes on, one of Pretoria's former proud landmarks stands like a set of rotten teeth in the jaw of a grinning skull.

4 Mosekimang Moshoeu - 4 years ago

I am a former shubart residents i was taken out by tshwane municipality and metro police unlawfully. M still in love with shubart park

5 TLHALEFANG JOHANNES - 2 years ago

It's been over more than 10 years since people were moved out of these building.

5 Given Matlala - 2 years ago

can someone estimate the cost price.... if i were to buy the place, destroy it, then start something new (new buildings)

1 Maletsema Maketela - 4 years ago

The building is closed for years now

4 Bridget Malaza - 4 years ago

Most of the flats here are damaged, it does not look nice at all.