In 2021, the OCA, the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council and other groups and individuals opposing the River Club case formed the Liesbeek Action Campaign to support the court case and mobilise public support against the development. The campaign was relatively successful in its earlier stages, drawing in a wide range of interested activists…
Category: Liesbeek Action Campaign
Update from our chair
We go into the new year with our campaign against the River Club happening on several fronts The Interim Interdict halting construction issued by Judge Goliath in March 2022, was overturned by a full bench of the High Court in November 2022. However, the OCA has appealed that decision, in particular the cost order made…
December 16th and way forward
Dear Regular LAC The Day of Reconciliation event at Robben Island was very successful. I have attached the programme for the 16th and the written text I presented and Marc presented. Secondly, since our backabuddy site has been closed, we have worked hard to set up two other platforms A GofundMe site A Givengain site…
River club – attempts to cut our fundraising capacity through our online platform Backabuddy
15 December 2022 Dear donors in our campaign against the River Club site On the 20th November, I wrote to you alerting you to the fact that our fundraising site, backabuddy, had given in to pressure from the developers of the River Club site to insinuate, based on the November 8th High Court findings, that…
Amazon, Khoisan face off over Cape Town headquarters
Loni Prinsloo – 15 December 2022 On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the Liesbeek and Black rivers meet in a small stretch of marshland. The 37-acre plot isn’t pristine — it lies next to a railyard and was until recently home…
Appeals are lodged against the decisions of the Cape High Court in November
14 DEC 2022 — In November this year, the Full Bench of the Cape High Court handed down two very bad decisions in our campaign against the River Club development. In one decision, the Court found that High Commissioner Tauriq Jenkins was not authorised to represent the Goringhiacona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council (GKKITC) and…
A sustained and vicious attack on the Campaign – but we are not out
24 NOV 2022 — We start with an appeal for funding. It is the shortage of funding that has left us vulnerable to a sustained and vicious attack, in court and out of court, on our campaign. Please support us at our fundraising site. Any donation of any size will make a huge difference Here…
River Club development highlights questionable process by City of Cape Town
Lalou Meltzer & Jens Horber – 27 October 2022 he River Club development on the Liesbeek River highlights questionable processes undertaken by the City of Cape Town in relation to members of a large and influential group of property developers. This is exactly what Crispian Olver has written about – particularly in his book, A…
Together, we can stop powerful developers!
They have millions of rands for lawyers, but we have thousands of fearless protectors of our sacred heritage – people like you ✊🌱 Pls consider donating to our struggle: http://liesbeek.org/donate
Latest round of litigation at the High Court a ‘lynching’ of indigenous identities
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