Dear Forum members, The report from the WC Food Forum held on the 23rd of March 2023 is attached HERE. Many thanks to those who attended and presented. Please note that the next Forum meeting will take place on Thursday the 4th of May 2023 (2pm – 3:30pm) to accommodate the public holidays at the…
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The best things in life are free: In praise of our libraries
Nick Dall – 21 March 2023 In 1761, a German colonist by the name of Joachim von Dessin bequeathed a few thousand books, two “skulls of savages”, a collection of “native craft” and a fund for the development of a library at the Cape. It took a while, but a library was eventually established in…
Fight poverty, not the poor: We who live in shacks are not a threat to society
Thapelo Mohapi – 12 March 2023 As people get more desperate, more hungry and more hopeless about South Africa, society is likely to become more violent. The most important way to make this society safer for us all is to restore trust in the present and hope for the future. Everywhere in the world the…
Sails ahoy for Mostert’s Mill: Restoration project nears the finishing line
Mostert’ Mill’s wind shaft and sails were installed on Wednesday 1 March.PHOTO: Supplied Nettalie Viljoen – 7 March 2023 One devastating wildfire and two years later, Mostert’s Mill is once again looking like a windmill. The mill, located next to Philip Kgosana Drive in Mowbray, was badly damaged in a runaway fire that broke…
Check out Obs What’s On
The website is a repository of what is going on in Obs. All businesses are listed as well as services. Events are found on the landing page. If people want to advertise, there is a form at the bottom of the landing page that can be completed and submitted. Alternatively people can email: [email protected] VISIT…
Obs Watch
Obs resident takes over from former Obs resident
EDP CEO Nishendra Moodley facilitates discussions around the future of the Philippi Horticultural Area in the first workshop in the ‘Re-Imagining the PHA’ series. Dear Colleagues in Food Systems Change, We have exciting news to share with you: Nishendra Moodley has officially started as the EDP’s new CEO, succeeding the outgoing founding CEO, Andrew Boraine,…
Flooding in Observatory
In view of the huge unprecedented flooding that occurred in Lower Obs on Monday afternoon, the OCA wrote the following letter to our Ward Councillor Yusuf Mohamed and cc’d it to the Mayor as well as Alderman Matthew Kempthorne and Councillor Alex Landsdowne (Chair of the Mayor’s advisory committee for water quality in wetlands and…
Mancomm meeting
Reminder that our next Mancomm meeting will be held on Tuesday 28 February 2023. Everyone is welcome to attend our monthly meetings which are always held on the last Tuesday of every month. Mancomm meeting Date: Tue 28th February 2023 Time: 18h00 Venue: via Zoom at home To attend our Mancomm meetings, please pop us…
A Public Subsidy of a Private Development and Wastewater management is the casualty PART III
A development levy of more than R 73 million was calculated for the development of which approximately R 10,5 million was said in the Appeal Report to be reserved for improvements to the water and sewerage reticulation system. However, the Chief Planner’s motivation to the Municipal Planning Tribunal in September 2020 noted that “The developer…