To the Table Bay District Plan Officer City of Cape Town 8001 District SDF Comment: For the Table Bay Planning District The Observatory Civic Association welcomes the opportunity to comments on the Draft Table Bay District Plan 2021. By way of commencing our comments, we refer to two other submissions: The submission of the…
POPI REGULATIONS CAME INTO EFFECT TODAY
The Protection of Personal Information Act (or POPI Act), comes into effect from 1 July 2021. The OCA would like to assure members that personal information contained in our database remains confidential and is not shared with any third party without your consent. Should you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please click here: UNSUBSCRIBE However, no action…
Community Service Award Winners
The Mayor of CT put out a call for people to be nominated for various community service awards on the 17th of June. Less than 24 hours before the awards were given, we were very pleasantly surprised to discover that OCA chair Leslie London had won the award for LEADERSHIP – by “exhibiting selfless leadership at the…
THE OCA HAS VACANCIES ON ITS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
If you are able to “donate” a few hours of your time to help the OCA with the many community issues that it gets involved in – from Social Issues to Building Regulations to Fundraising to Keeping our members updated etc etc etc, then please drop us an email at [email protected] and we will happily provide you…
Social issues report
Obz Car Boot Sale The Observatory Civic Association, Liesbeek Action Campaign and locals from the Observatory community came together to launch the first Obz car boot sale on Saturday the 12th of June. The Pepper tree car park behind the Kwikspar came alive with community! Locals selling an assortment of gems, incense, hardware, clothing, art, plants, bric a brac –…
OBS can feed you
Obs CAN Feed You x Africa 70* This picture of bamia is a ~threat~ promise for later: we don’t think you’re ready for okra… For this Sunday, *Busi & Papy at African Box* are making an East African stew of brinjal and sweet potato, black-eyed beans and palm oil. Free as always to our neighbours still without shelter *60 rand/portion for everyone…
Architecture & Heritage update
Architecture and Heritage Update: June 2021 The Architecture and Heritage team have so far this year received 27 requests for comment on residential heritage applications in Observatory, as well as several informal consultations and a number of invitations to comment on planning and land use applications. If you are considering making changes to your property and are unsure of what process…
A Social Compact must be about a public, not private, benefit
24 JUN 2021 — Today the LLPT announced news of an event featuring a so-called Social Compact between the developers and the First Nations Collective (FNC). This is not surprising though it is rather illogical. A Social Compact is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to co-operate for social benefits, for example by…
Not a Rubbish Dump, Jody.
23 JUN 2021 — In March 2020, Jody Aufrichtig claimed in a letter to the Cape Argus newspaper that “The River Club site is in fact severely under-utilised, closed to the public and degraded, with some parts being used as a rubbish dump.” Well, the LLPT, as legally required to do, have done a faunal search and…
OCA appeals the LLPT Water Use License for the River Club Redevelopment
21 JUN 2021 — Today, the Observatory Civic Association lodged an appeal against the Water Use License issued by the Department of Water and Sanitation for the re-development of the River Club. Our appeal was lodged with the Water Tribunal under a section of the National Water Act, which provides Interested and Affected Parties the…