Major marketing promotions of the city portray Table Mountain as the defining landmark and spatial anchor of Cape Town.

Table Mountain as a symbolic representation of the broader TMNP landscape.

Colonial and apartheid park use exclusions are entrenched in contemporary socio-spatial ordering of the city.

Table Mountain National Park is almost exclusively used by residents living in high-income suburbs.

‘Non-white’ Cape Town residents mainly visit the touristic sites implying they are merely ‘tourists’ in their own city.