OCA Petition

Community Service Award Winners

The Mayor of CT put out a call for people to be nominated for various community service awards on the 17th of June. Less than 24 hours before the awards were given, we were very pleasantly surprised to discover that OCA chair Leslie London had won the award for LEADERSHIP  – by “exhibiting selfless leadership at the…

The River Club: When Curing kills the patient

Sign this Petition 23 FEB 2021 Leslie London – Cape Town, South Africa Minister Bredell released his decision on the appeal against the Environmental Authorisation which was granted to the developers of the River Club last year. Yesterday on the 22nd February, he issued a 128-page report in which he rejected the appeals lodged by 21…

Khoi council to appeal approval of River Club rezoning

NEWS | By Yolisa Tswanya |  Sep 21, 2020 Cape Town – The Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Indigenous Council is in the process of appealing the decision to approve the rezoning of the River Club. The rezoning application was unanimously approved by the Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) on Friday. Goringhaicona high commissioner Tauriq Jenkins said:…

River Club campaign update

The recent history of the River Club is instructive Our last post referred to an observation made by Heritage Western about the River Club HIA, where it referred to the River Club’s “origins in the 1920s.” HWC was critical of this emphasis on recent history. But let’s examine the recent history of the site over…

The River Club BAR – OCA submits supplementary objection

The OCA submitted additional comment on the BAR as detailed below. The petition initiated by OCA is included, along with anonymised comment from those who signed – more than 10 000 as of 16h45 on the 27th Feb (that’s about 1300 per day, almost one person a second!) Most people signing were from South Africa and…