How the Amadiba people from South Africa’s Wild Coast are winning a battle against an Australian Mining Company and the South African political elite. Xolobeni, Eastern Cape, South Africa. A community has been fighting for over 20 years to stop an Australian mining company’s attempt to rip up their ancestral land in order to…
Talks on controversial R4bn River Club development intensify
A Google Earth screenshot of Mowbray with the River Club near the centre of the image. NEWS / 28 JANUARY 2020, 10:23AM / FRANCESCA VILLETTE Cape Town – Talks around the controversial River Club redevelopment have intensified with the First Nations Collective now coming out in support of the R4 billion proposed project. The redevelopment of the River Club…
Victory for housing activists as Paarden Eiland to get low-cost housing
An artist’s impression of the development. Picture: Supplied NEWS / 10 JULY 2019, 11:36AM / MARVIN CHARLES Cape Town – In a victory for housing activists the Municipal Planning Tribunal in Goodwood has approved a new development with an affordable housing component in Paarden Eiland by Spear Reit, a property investment company. “As one of the most racially segregated…
Declare Two Rivers Urban Park and Bo-Kaap Unesco heritage sites
The Department of Transport and Public Works said the River Club site, Two Rivers Urban Park, 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 NEWS / 27 NOVEMBER 2018, 4:31PM…
OCA Chair appeals Springbok Pub approval by the Liquor Tribunal
Dear Mr. Ndaba I write on behalf of the Observatory Civic Association (OCA). Please find attached our appeal regarding the Springbok Pub approval by the Liquor Tribunal. I have attached as well, an advert posted at the premises which we believe supports one of the grounds for our appeal – this is a photo of…
OCA Response on Armchair Theatre Temp Liquor license
The OCA has responded to Sub-Council 16: “After due consideration, and engagement with the applicant, the Observatory Civic Association has agreed to support this application.” We would, however, like it to be noted that the applicant has applied for a permanent liquor license, and the OCA has not received notification of this application at all….
Khoisan divided over the River Club’s R4bn redevelopment
(Left to right) consultants Jeremy Jackson, Rudwaan Arendse, developer Jody Aufrichtig and leader of the Gorinhaiqua Cultural Council, and spokesperson for the First Nations Collective Zenzile Khoisan doing a site visit of the River Club. Picture: Marvin Charles/Cape Argus Cape Town – Khoisan groups are divided over the controversial River Club redevelopment in Observatory. Leader…
The Observatory I knew and the Twilight People
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…