The R1.2-billlion project to redevelop Cape Townâs well-known Golden Acre is gathering steam, with construction work in full swing to convert the 110-m-high, 24-storey office tower, located in the central business district (CBD), into rental accommodation.
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Golden Acre is a shopping mall on the corner of Adderley and Strand Streets in the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa.[3] The building is set to be redeveloped into a mixed-use development, featuring affordable housing and retail space. Construction of the new building is scheduled for October 2025, and it is planned to open in 2027.[4]
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Construction has officially started on the residential component of the R780 million Golden Acre redevelopment, which will convert the 24-storey tower into over 400 inner-city rental units.
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The redeveloped Golden Acre will welcome its first tenants as early as October, a key project stakeholders said this week.
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The residential development at the Golden Acre Precinct in the CBD is scheduled for completion on December 1, when tenants are expected to begin moving in.
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Proceedings began with establishing that the City of Cape Town is the responsible owner of the Skybridge that leads from the Prasa station deck to the Golden Acre. (Photo: City of Cape Town)
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Free SA has responded to Statistics South Africaâs Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter of 2025, warning that the latest employment figures offer little relief to a labour market that remains structurally fragile and deeply concerning.
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When President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the 2026 State of the Nation Address, he moved beyond general acknowledgement of the housing crisis and outlined a series of more concrete interventions. These included accelerating the release of well-located public land, expanding social and affordable housing, unblocking stalled housing projects, reforming infrastructure financing, and strengthening coordination through the human settlements framework. These commitments signal an awareness that housing lies at the heart of South Africaâs inequality crisis. The question now is whether they will shift the structural conditions that continue to reproduce spatial exclusion.
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