Alex N. Press – 19 April 2022 A new report shows just how dangerous it is to work at Amazon. Injury rates last year at Amazon warehouses were 20 percent higher than the already alarmingly high 2020 rate — and more than twice that of non-Amazon warehouses. Amazon’s workplace safety issues are getting worse, though…
Category: Liesbeek River Project
Follow the Money and find out why this was approved
29 APR 2022 — Firstly, an appeal. We are completely reliant on Crowd Funding to cover our legal costs. If everyone who signed this petition was willing to donate R20 (or $1), we would be able to fight our court battle on an even footing. So, please help us fund our legal costs by making…
Heritage and the Environment – to make it matter, we need your donation!
27 APR 2022 — Today was Freedom Day, commemorating our first elections under a democratic South Africa. Today we held our second Freedom Day walk to affirm that the sacred heritage and precious environmental wetlands of the Liesbeek are not for sale. Rich and powerful people in our city think they can secure administrative decisions…
Why is this land so important to the San and Khoi?
Chief Autshumao explains: “At the end of the day, it’s this thing of land dispossession, which is still happening, which is still continuing. Because as a spiritual nation, us being the Aboriginal Indigenous sovereign nation people, we see this land is sacred, and there are certain places that are very sacred like all high places…
Meaningful Consultation: Not in LLPT’s vocabulary (unless opportunistic)
14 APR 2022 — Today, Judge Patricia Goliath considers the four applications (from the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust (LLPT), the City of Cape Town, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (DEADP) and the First Nations Collective (FNC)) for leave to appeal the groundbreaking interdict she granted to stop the construction at the River…
The LLPT Appeal: “Imagined” is how they understand intangible heritage
20220406_SCT&PW_Invite Mun_WC Prov Trans Infr Bill 10 APR 2022 — The developers, Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust (LLPT), applied for leave to Appeal on 28 March against Judge Patricia Goliath’s interdict ruling that they may not proceed with construction on the River Club site until the High Court reviews the rezoning and Environmental Authorisation decisions (by…
Amazon: The behemoth of corporate power
Leslie London – 23 MAR 2022 Amazon, the capitalist behemoth, takes its name from the narratives in Greek mythology of women warriors of the ancient world. Their name was later linked to the Amazon River which, as the story goes, was named after indigenous women in the region who were strong warriors, in the tradition…
Stop right there! Judge Goliath grants our interdict against the River Club re-development
19 MAR 2022 — Incredible. Amazing. Day 56 after the hearing and Judge Goliath issued her findings – in no uncertain terms. She interdicted the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust (LLPT) from continuing with any construction at the River Club site until (a) there is meaningful engagement and consultation with all affected First Nations peoples (not…
We continue to campaign for human rights
18 MAR 2022 — Day 56. That’s 8 weeks since the end of the court proceedings which considered our application for an urgent interdict. We are still awaiting the Judge’s decision which we have been told is likely to be issued next week. But as many of you will be aware, Judge Goliath was the…
Will SAHRA protect this river from further butchery? No time to delay!
8 MAR 2022 — Day 46 following our interdict. We still await the Judge’s decision. The infill of the original River Course continues. Concrete mixers continue to barrel in and barrel out of the River Club entrance. We heard today that the Judge asked the legal representative for the amicus curiae in the case (Legal…