21 JUN 2021 — Today, the Observatory Civic Association lodged an appeal against the Water Use License issued by the Department of Water and Sanitation for the re-development of the River Club. Our appeal was lodged with the Water Tribunal under a section of the National Water Act, which provides Interested and Affected Parties the…
Category: Liesbeek Action Campaign
Comments on the proposal to amend the Western Cape Constitution to abolish the position of Environmental Commissioner:
60 Trill Road Observatory 7925 31st May 2021 To the Standing Committee on Premier and Constitutional Matters Western Cape Provincial Parliament Wale St Cape Town Email: [email protected] 1. The Observatory Civic Association wishes to make the following comments as input to the Western Cape parliamentary discussion on the abolition of the Environmental Commissioner from the Western…
Statement from the A|XARRA Restorative Justice Forum
Greetings In response to the email that we all received, please find the following statement and call for solidarity. The A|XARRA Restorative Justice Forum together with the Khoi and San Kingdom Council of Southern Africa, the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional and Indigenous Council, the Cochoqua Royal Council, the Kai Korana Transfrontier, the !Aman Royal Council,…
REQUEST FOR UNDERTAKING TO DELAY ALTERATION OF RIVER CLUB SITE
To all our supporters (and there are thankfully thousands of you), We are starting our legal battle today. In the link below is a letter to the developers drafted by our lawyers on our instructions, asking the LLPT to indicate that, given the importance of the matter, they will stay any commencement of any earth works,…
a Word from our Chair May 2021
Thousands of supporters want to make the Liesbeek Matter! This was quite a week. Not only did the ANC suspend its secretary-general, and the US president did a flip to support the global call for a waiver of Intellectual Property Protection for COVID-19 vaccines, but the numbers of supporters of our cause has rocketed since…
OCA’s open letter to McKenzie Scott – former wife of Jeff Bezos and the third richest woman in the world with a net worth of $53 billion 04 May 2021
Dear Ms Mckenzie Scott I write to you as the chair of the Observatory Civic Association, a small community civic in Cape Town, South Africa that prides itself on active citizenry towards civic democracy. Our Civic, which has a long history of community activism, is currently partnered with more than60 First Nation Khoi Indigenous organisations,…
The River Club development: What is really at stake?
By Leslie London Leslie London is chairperson of the Observatory Civic Association. He has been a human rights activist in the health sector for many years and has become involved in civic democracy, more recently helping to found, with other civic activists, the network of Civic Action for Public Participation (CAPP), which is committed to…
When it flows, it floods
By Tauriq Jenkins Tauriq Jenkins is Supreme High Commissioner for the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Indigenous Council under Paramount Chief Aran In 1996, the Khoi and San were not part of the Constitution. Then President Thabo Mbeki’s “I am an African” speech, with the founding of South Africa’s Constitution, would remain in its nascent stage…
786 Radio interview on the River Club development
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Cape housing activists reject R4bn River Club development.
[LISTEN] Ndifuna Ukwazi’s attorney Jonty Cogger speaks to Stephen Grootes regarding the R4 billion River Club development given a go-ahead after being approved for development by the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust. LISTEN HERE