26 November 2021 Protests continued on Friday 26 November at the construction site in Observatory, Cape Town, where Amazon plans to build its Africa HQ. The American shopping giant will be the anchor tenant, though not the only tenant, of the planned development. But protesters say it is on a site of particular historical significance…
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The Liesbeek Action Campaign to march against big tech company Amazon on Black Friday
Xolile Mtembu – 24 November 2021 The Liesbeek Action Campaign calls on South Africans to join the Amazon strike #MakeAmazonPay on Black Friday, November 26 at the Liesbeek River. This comes after the American multinational conglomerate announced they will build an Amazon campus at the site. The campaign opposes the proposed construction as the river…
River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities
Steven Robins – 22 November 2021 While the details of the land-use planning decision to rezone the River Club land for development has yet to be dissected in the courtroom, what has become very clear is that the economic and political relations between the developers and their civil society opponents are highly unequal. After walking…
Fight to stop River Club development continues
Wesley Ford – 18 Nov 2021 What is happening to the River Club site in Observatory is a repeat of what happened there more than 400 years ago when indigenous people were dispossessed of their land. So say the hundreds of protesters who gathered at the entrance of the Two Rivers Urban Park to voice…
Land activists call on Jeff Bezos to intercede in a development on sacred land in Observatory
Next month, The Observatory Civic Association (OCA) and Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Indigenous Council will be going to court in an effort to seek an interdict against the River Club developers from going ahead with the development. Or live stream the show on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/KM0oGjWbMmk
Where do political parties stand on the River Club development?
The LAC wrote to 52 parties in the upcoming election asking them to state their positions on the River Club development. What we found was the following: – Of the 52 parties, 7 email addresses provided on the IEC website for the party were defunct, including that for the ANC. – Of the remaining 45…
New documents shed light on Amazon’s controversial Africa headquarters
Louise Matsakis & Patrick Egwu – 21 October 2021 On the east side of Cape Town’s Observatory neighborhood, the Liesbeek and Black rivers converge. According to locals, the area offers one of the best views of the city’s iconic mountains and is perhaps the only spot where Signal Hill, Lion’s Head, Devil’s Peak, and Table…
Amazon’s Cape Town base: The battle to save South African culture
14 September 2021 Campaigners in the South African city of Cape Town are trying to halt the building of the African headquarters for Amazon. It’s a battle that pits cultural concerns against economic interests, as the BBC’s Vumani Mkhize writes. It is an overcast day in Cape Town and the scenic Table Mountain is shrouded…
The Liesbeek Action Campaign: ‘Yes, misinformation must stop, but it is not coming from opponents of the development’
By Professor Leslie London, Tauriq Jenkins and Marc Turok for the Liesbeek Action Campaign, 25 August 2021 The Liesbeek Action Campaign believes that misinformation is rife with regard to the River Club development. However, it is not the opponents of the development who are misinforming the public. This is a response to Mr Jody Aufrichtig’s…