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…
Battle intensifies over plan to develop mini-Century City on Observatory site
NEWS / 18 DECEMBER 2019, 2:15PM / DOMINIC ADRIAANSE – IOL The land is the site of a 100-year-old floodplain where two rivers converge below Observatory, and where the River Club Golf Course lies. File picture: David Ritchie/African News Agency (ANA) Cape Town – As the provisional protection of the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP) precinct is nearing its…
First Nations groups fight to save Cape Town’s Two Rivers Urban Park
article by Sonja Schoeman – Daily Maverick 19 December 2019 ‘!Khutse hui ida |hoaba sida lumisa’ (Creator, help us to unite for our natural and cultural heritage) and save Two Rivers Urban Park. This prayer was made by Bradley van Sitters, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s imbongi, at a gathering on Wednesday of five First Nations groups,…