CITY OF CAPE TOWN 16 MARCH 2020 MEDIA RELEASE The City has received reports of criminals approaching residents at their homes pretending to offer medical service and claiming to be doing home testing for COVID-19. The City would like to warn residents that no members of staff are assigned to perform door-to-door testing. For…
Community consciousness around the Corona Virus
Dear Residents, As we respond to this Coronavirus crisis as announced on Sunday by our President, it is our duty as a civic to assist in maximizing consciousness of the situation while minimizing fear. We call on our community for a human-centered approach that will diminish fear and not tolerate alarmist, racist, and xenophobic reactions. We…
Feedback from the OCA Chair on the Tribunal hearing of the River Club
The Ministerial Appeal Tribunal met on Friday 13th March to consider an appeal by the River Club developer, the City of Cape Town and two provincial government departments (Transport and Public Works; Environmental Affairs and Development Planning) against Heritage Western Cape’s Provisional Protection Order on the River Club. The order was issued in April 2018…
Precies waar ooit de landroof begon, wil Kaapstad nu bouwen
De River Club ligt op gewilde grond in Kaapstad. Maar het plan om er appartementen te bouwen, is omstreden. Dit is de eerste grond die Nederlanders in 1657 van de inheemse bevolking afpakten. Niels Posthumus 10 maart 2020, 9:51 Tauriq Jenkins (39) noemt het ‘de eindstrijd’ van een conflict dat 363 jaar geleden met de…
Climate change threatens SA socio-economic development – Creecy
NEWS / The Citizen 18 Feb 2020 She said her department would spend R1.9bn this year to restore wetlands, estuaries and coastal dunes to better protect human settlements from storms and floods. Climate change poses a “significant risk” to South Africa’s socio-economic development, Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy said in the debate on…
The River Club BAR – OCA submits supplementary objection
The OCA submitted additional comment on the BAR as detailed below. The petition initiated by OCA is included, along with anonymised comment from those who signed – more than 10 000 as of 16h45 on the 27th Feb (that’s about 1300 per day, almost one person a second!) Most people signing were from South Africa and…
The TRUP Provincial Heritage status application
On the evening of the 27th February the Goringhaicona, the OCA and the TRUPA submitted the application for Provincial Heritage Status to Heritage Western Cape with your organisations listed as supporting the application. Below are the four documents that went in for the application – the main application form plus three appendices – the map…
Voice your opposition to the River Club BAR
Dear LAC supporters, The Observatory Civic Association has formulated a petition for people to sign if they don’t have time to submit a separate objection to Amy Hill at SRK regarding the River Club Basic Assessment Report that was published recently. Please sign on and share the below link with as many people as you can,…
Draft Liquor Licence Policy for Discussion at OCA meeting February 2020
The purpose of this draft policy is to provide a framework upon which future liquor licence and gambling applications are made for the neighbourhood of Observatory. It is acknowledged that there are many existing liquor licences, as well as gambling licences in current use in Observatory. The high density of liquor licences in the area…
OCA Objection submitted to Amy Hill at SRK
Dear Obs Residents, I am sharing with you the final outcome of Heritage Western Cape IACOM (Impact Assessment Committee) comment on the Heritage Impact Assessment conducted by the River Club’s consultants. View Final Comment Here They have totally rejected the report as meeting the requirements for an HIA in terms of Section 38 of the…