There are many lenses through which we can look at Observatory’s past. Here we look at Observatory as the City of Cape Town’s frontier for Apartheid’s twilight people – those caught in the fault-lines of Apartheid’s race classification system. Bokaap, District Six, Woodstock, Maitland, Salt River and the northwest corner of Observatory presented the implementation…
Liquor License application – Springbok Pub Observatory Reasons
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Zoning violation complaint – Erf 27883 Observatory
by Leslie London – Dear Mr Mupariwa I am not sure who should be receiving this Zoning violation complaint regarding the development at 289 Lower Main Road, Observatory, 7925; erf 27883. Please see below Complaint form – download here Two Screenshots of how the property is being advertised – ad#1 ad#2…
2020 Social Issues Vision
by Kimon Bisogno – Social Issues chair – Overview Every Wednesday for the last 2 years I have been using life skills to teach the homeless of the area how to calm their mind at the Youth Solutions hall in Shelley Street and better manage their stress. The program’s intention is to encourage the individual…
Comment on the River Club Local Spatial Development Framework by DR LJ Shannon
ENVIRONMENTAL The following was submitted in response to the development planned along the Liesbeek River. Comments: Dr LJ Shannon In my capacity as a world-respected biological scientist and Chief Researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town, I would like to make a few succinct comments on the proposed development(s)…
Of developers, governance and land speculation
By Tshego Putu and Taylor Stanton• 6 November 2019 | Maverick Citizen In Cape Town, the City’s decisions to support developers in the Philippi Horticultural Area, the River Club development in Observatory, and the WEX2 development in Woodstock have drawn the ire of residents, activists and NGOs. In what often feels like a never-ending legal…
R4bn River Club developer ‘doesn’t have full consent of Khoi San’
An artist’s rendering of what would be a Heritage and Cultural Media Centre, as part of the controversial R4 billion development proposed by the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, next to the Riverclub in Observatory. Image: Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust Cape Town – The developer of a controversial R4 billion development, near the River Club in Observatory,…
Khoi Community, Civic group want to STOP R4bn River Club Development
The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust wants to turn the River Club area in Observatory into an R4 billion mixed-use space. Jarita Kassen | 22 days ago CAPE TOWN – Various civic organizations and indigenous groups are at loggerheads with a property developer in the Western Cape. The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust wants to turn the River Club…
Response to the River Club developer’s claims of apartheid spatial redress
In his response to objections by First Nations Groups and 34 civic associations and NGOs to the River Club development in Cape Town this week, the developer Jody Aufrichtig says: “It is not clear what the agenda of this small group is. We can only infer that they are using the guise of heritage concerns…
Another hurdle for R4bn Two Rivers Park development plan
NEWS / 18 DECEMBER 2019, 3:06PM / MARVIN CHARLES The Department of Transport and Public Works said the River Club site has been protected by the National Heritage Resources Act’s general protections and by the Heritage Impact Assessment process undertaken by the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust since February 2017. File photo: African News Agency (ANA) Archives.Cape Town – The…