Judgment has been reserved in an urgent application to halt a luxury development on Botmaskop slopes, on the Helshoogte Pass between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek; as many as 570 houses have been placed “on hold” as a Gugulethu housing project has been delayed by extortion rackets, SASSA and the Department of Social Development to brief Parliament on progress made on the investigation into vulnerabilities of the payment system as exposed by two Stellenbosch University Students. John Maytham speaks to Barbara October, Deputy Editor at GroundUp.