THIS IS THE NEW APARTHEID. A Cape Town mother is being THROWN INTO THE STREETS so her home can become a tourist hotel. And she’s just one of THOUSANDS.
Alexandra Hayes’s desperate, viral video exposes the brutal truth. “I just want a home for me and my daughter,” she pleads, holding back tears after getting her eviction notice. Her crime? Her landlord wants MORE MONEY by turning her apartment into an Airbnb. She can’t find a new home because rents demand a R30,000 salary—a fantasy for most. “I am not coping,” she confesses. This isn’t just an eviction. It’s a HUMAN BEING discarded for tourist dollars.
LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. Cape Town has over 25,000 Airbnb listings. The image of shiny, empty apartments tells the whole story. Each one is a home STOLEN from a resident. Property owners are cashing in, making an average of R345,000 per year. MORE THAN HALF have multiple listings. This is a coordinated business model built on human misery. Who’s silencing this crisis? The politicians and the platforms PROFITING from it.
While families beg for shelter, investors buy up entire buildings. The system is rigged. This is economic violence, and it’s happening in broad daylight. Your city is being sold off, room by room.
Cape Town isn’t facing a housing crisis. It’s conducting a ruthless eviction.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
