Stece Kretzman – 2 December 2021 Opponents of the R4.5 billion property development at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black rivers in Cape Town have sought an urgent interdict to prevent building going ahead. The project includes the new regional headquarters of corporate giant Amazon, and opponents have been warned that blocking the development…
River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities
By Steven Robins – 22 Nov 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…
Media executive linked to River Club developer
Steve Kretzmann – 30 November 2021 In June this year, the publication Cape{town}etc published an editorial criticising the controversial River Club development in Observatory, Cape Town. The editorial was swiftly removed. Over the next week, three articles favourable to the development were published. On 1 July, Kevin Ferguson, the chief executive of Highbury Media, which…
#MakeAmazonPay campaign hits Cape Town
By Bulelwa Payi – Nov 28, 2021 When activists and employees of Amazon staged protests against the tech giant across the world on Black Friday, calls on the company to end its “colonial indifference”, also echoed across a contested site in Observatory. A group of indigenous people, land activists and civic associations waved placards on…
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Amazon, solidarity doesn’t scare easily
There’s no doubt that the workers, advocates, and elected officials coming together to #MakeAmazonPay have captured the world’s imagination and are changing the way the public perceives Amazon. As much as Amazon is trying, solidarity doesn’t scare easily. Since a group of strikers, labour, environment, tax, data, privacy, and anti-monopoly activists from every corner of our planet and every link in Amazon’s supply chain formed #MakeAmazonPay last…
Protest against Amazon Inc’s plans to build on sacred indigenous land
Activists and indigenous groups representing Khoi and San communities held a protest outside the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town. They are opposing the plans by American e-commerce giant, Amazon Inc, to build its African headquarters on land currently occupied by the River Club which is considered sacred tribal and indigenous land. WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO…
Black Friday: Cape groups upset over Amazon development in Cape Town, to join worldwide protest
Mwangi Githahu – Nov 25 2021 Cape Town – Environmental and indigenous groups are using the Black Friday shopping rush to put a spotlight on Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, and the building of its African headquarters on the banks of the Liesbeeck River, regarded by many as “sacred” ground. World-wide, protesters from more…
Interdict hearing placed on hold for River Club redevelopment
24 November 2021 Cape Town – The application for an interdict to halt the redevelopment of the Liesbeek Riverine in the The River Club precinct, has been placed on hold as there is no judge available to hear the matter. Proceedings were set to take place later this week at the Cape High Court. The…