My work centres on Gogo’s Soup Kitchen, based in Gugulethu, Cape Town. It draws on the soup kitchen as a site of micropolitics - a form of state power that is exercised at a minute but embedded level - through surveillance, discipline and threat. The micropolitics of the soup kitchen make it a site of convergence between the everyday violence of going hungry and the large-scale, long-standing, all encompassing spatial violence of Apartheid and the colonial regime. The challenge of how to enact reparations that respond to such pervasive violence have long been conversations in South Africa. However, very little material change is felt. My work joins this conversation by presenting a toolkit that learns from Gogo, suggesting granular and incremental changes as a way to practice architecture ethically in this context. I take the position that reparations should be multi-scalar and multi-modal, addressing the legislative, neighbourhood as well as material level. I suggest that the soup kitchen provides a civic space in an area that was violently planned to lack them. By facilitating and galvanising civic space, we can begin the incremental repair of Gugulethu township. Further, I believe we must redress our top-down legislative standards in architectural practice; these only continue to reproduce spatial segregation. Instead, we should learn from resilient infrastructures that already work, such as Gogo’s, and work outwards.