A battle is raging over the proposed development of the land along the Liesbeek River in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks The area along the Liesbeek is recognised as a sacred space, says HWC NEWS | 19 February 2020 By Steve Kretzmann Heritage Western Cape has slammed the study on which the developers based…
Category: Liesbeek Action Campaign
Time to give unsung Khoisan heroes their place in the sun
The Khoisan group camped at the Union Buildings for more than a year. It is recorded that by 1700 several Khoikhoi whose economic backbone had been decimated found themselves as servants on the farms on land they had previously owned or had become dependent on the colony for their livelihood, to this day. Photo: Oupa…
River Club tribunal slams City
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Support for property developer angers Khoi leadership
Civic organisations protest outside Heritage Western Cape offices before a tribunal hearing on 21 November. They want the River Club to be given provincial heritage status as it holds great significance for Khoi peoples. Photo: Steve Kretzmann/WCN NEWS / 7 February 2020 By Steve Kretzmann A statement claiming First Nations support for River Club…
Talks on controversial R4bn River Club development intensify
A Google Earth screenshot of Mowbray with the River Club near the centre of the image. NEWS / 28 JANUARY 2020, 10:23AM / FRANCESCA VILLETTE Cape Town – Talks around the controversial River Club redevelopment have intensified with the First Nations Collective now coming out in support of the R4 billion proposed project. The redevelopment of the River Club…
Declare Two Rivers Urban Park and Bo-Kaap Unesco heritage sites
The Department of Transport and Public Works said the River Club site, Two Rivers Urban Park, has been protected by the National Heritage Resources Act’s general protections and by the Heritage Impact Assessment process undertaken by the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust since February 2017. File photo: African News Agency (ANA) Archives NEWS / 27 NOVEMBER 2018, 4:31PM…
Khoisan divided over the River Club’s R4bn redevelopment
(Left to right) consultants Jeremy Jackson, Rudwaan Arendse, developer Jody Aufrichtig and leader of the Gorinhaiqua Cultural Council, and spokesperson for the First Nations Collective Zenzile Khoisan doing a site visit of the River Club. Picture: Marvin Charles/Cape Argus Cape Town – Khoisan groups are divided over the controversial River Club redevelopment in Observatory. Leader…
Comment on the River Club Local Spatial Development Framework by DR LJ Shannon
ENVIRONMENTAL The following was submitted in response to the development planned along the Liesbeek River. Comments: Dr LJ Shannon In my capacity as a world-respected biological scientist and Chief Researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town, I would like to make a few succinct comments on the proposed development(s)…
R4bn River Club developer ‘doesn’t have full consent of Khoi San’
An artist’s rendering of what would be a Heritage and Cultural Media Centre, as part of the controversial R4 billion development proposed by the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, next to the Riverclub in Observatory. Image: Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust Cape Town – The developer of a controversial R4 billion development, near the River Club in Observatory,…
Khoi Community, Civic group want to STOP R4bn River Club Development
The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust wants to turn the River Club area in Observatory into an R4 billion mixed-use space. Jarita Kassen | 22 days ago CAPE TOWN – Various civic organizations and indigenous groups are at loggerheads with a property developer in the Western Cape. The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust wants to turn the River Club…