Mdazananda: 🚨 HELD UP AT GUNPOINT AND BEATEN UP 🚨
Yesterday afternoon four of our staff were brutally attacked while trying to do good in the community 💔 We recently launched “The Fencing Project” – an initiative to build fences around community members’ yards. The aim is to create more safe homes for people who wish to adopt dogs 🏡 While building the first fence…
How to build a heat-resilient city
Jake Bittle & Naveena Sadasivam – 5 October 2023 This story was co-published with Gizmodo. It is also part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. Cities are hot. When you cover the ground with asphalt and concrete, jam millions of cars…
Fast-fashion can solve its waste problem by using recycled textiles—but we have to push pressure on brands to use it
Quynh Do Nhu – 23 September 2023 Earlier this year, fast fashion retailer Zara released its first womenswear collection made of recycled poly-cotton textile waste. The collection is available for sale in 11 countries, helping clothing made of blended textile waste reach the mass market. The collection came about after Zara’s parent company Inditex…
Invitation to a Special General Meeting on the 3rd October at 6pm
The OCA will be holding a hybrid (both in-person and online via zoom) SGM on Tuesday the 3rd October in order to: 1) Give feedback to members on the decision by the OCA Management Committee to reach a settlement and withdraw from litigation on the River Club development. The Man Comm will explain why we…
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SUPPORTING LOCAL INITIATIVES TO CELEBRATE OBSERVATORY’S DIVERSE HISTORY ABOUT OBSID & HERITAGE In 2020, OBSID undertook a survey of residents desires, and one of the issues raised was the need for a repository of the history of Observatory, which allows for a strengthen the Observatory community through the celebration of our unique and diverse history…
CALL TO STOP THIS OUTRAGEOUS DEVELOPMENT FROM TAKING PLACE
Objection for an Auditorium to be built in this residential road, Dixton Road, Observatory, Cape Town – ERF 28173/ Application number 1500010695/ 70532476 The property is deemed a Heritage site (graded IIIa with part of it graded IIa). The entire erf and its buildings was nominated by the OCA in 2022 as a Provincial Heritage…
Thanks to MMH for Vaccines for Obs
Dear colleagues Appreciation for community access to SARS CoV2 vaccines We would like to thank you and your staff for making SARS CoV2 vaccines available to the community, especially as the GSH / UCT Community of Hope vaccine centre options were no longer open. It was great to have appointment times, as well as an…
Obs Can Feed You report
OCFY is still active with our usual Saturday and Sunday breakfast. We thought the recent eviction notice might change out numbers but hasn’t seemed to. We still serve between 50-80 persons per session. Many members of the green have joined the occupation of riverside lodge We still have a shortage of bread as we only…
Corruption and urban development webinar
Hi all I am on a webinar on corruption and state capture, and a speaker from the African Centre for Cities, shared some video clips about their work on highlighting risks of corruption in urban development decisions See the Cities of Integrity playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PL6YKlvsHY3r44POEB457uMbf0o768ZOBH Thanks Leslie