Alderman Felicity Purchase, councillor for ward 69, has written the following response to Taryn Blyth’s op-ed published by Daily Maverick. Request for comment on sections of Blyth’s op-ed was directed at Mike Gibson, a resident: however, the City of Cape Town responded instead because it had arranged and hosted the meeting in question. It added that it wanted to provide a ‘factual account’ of the meeting since Purchase has access to the minutes and co-chaired the meeting. It said Gibson ‘has no record of the meeting’.