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…
Indigenous communities protest against Amazon Inc’s proposed African head office
Protests continued at the construction site of a property development in Observatory, Cape Town, where American shopping giant Amazon Inc will be the anchor tenant on completion of the development. The site is where the first battle between the Portuguese setters and indigenous people took place on 1 March 1510, in the Battle of Salt…
Jeff Bezos blasted in Cape Town development protest
26 November 2021 Protesters wearing Jeffery Bezos masks stood on a Cape Town street corner on Friday and railed against a planned office precinct development that will house the African headquarters of retail giant Amazon. Bezos, founder of Amazon and the second richest man in the world, according to the Forbes Rich List, has been…
Protests continue against Amazon’s planned Africa head office on indigenous site
26 November 2021 Protests continued on Friday 26 November at the construction site in Observatory, Cape Town, where Amazon plans to build its Africa HQ. The American shopping giant will be the anchor tenant, though not the only tenant, of the planned development. But protesters say it is on a site of particular historical significance…
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The Liesbeek Action Campaign to march against big tech company Amazon on Black Friday
Xolile Mtembu – 24 November 2021 The Liesbeek Action Campaign calls on South Africans to join the Amazon strike #MakeAmazonPay on Black Friday, November 26 at the Liesbeek River. This comes after the American multinational conglomerate announced they will build an Amazon campus at the site. The campaign opposes the proposed construction as the river…
Study of Cape Town residents’ perceptions of water issues
Are you a homeowner in Cape Town interested in water management? A researcher from Arizona State University in the United States, Hallie Eakin, is hoping to interview homeowners (18 years +) about the situation of water in the city. The research focuses on the perspectives of Cape Town residents on issues of water scarcity and…
River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities
Steven Robins – 22 November 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 walking…
Formal notification of OCA AGM on 7th December
The OCA hereby formally announces that its AGM will be held online via ZOOM at 18.00 on Tuesday 7 December 2021. We thus invite you to submit your nominations for the people you would like to see being elected to the OCA Mancomm on December 7th, by submitting the nomination form via email to [email protected]…
Mancomm meeting
Our next Mancomm is on Tues 30 November 2021 Date: Tue 30 November 2021 Time: 18h00 Venue: via Zoom at home