4 May 2022 – Steve Kretzmann The award-winning Observatory Civic Association, which has led the opposition to the River Club development, has been excluded from the ward committee in ward 57 following new rules being adopted by the city in January. Ward committees were established by the Municipal Structures Act “in order to enhance participatory…
Petition calls for the City to extend funding for Public Employment Programme for the homelessness
Cape Town – An Observatory resident has started an urgent petition calling for the City to not discontinue the Public Employment Programme (PEP) addressing homelessness in the metro at the end of June. The petition has been endorsed by the Observatory Civic Association and the Observatory Neighbourhood Watch. Streetscape Khulisa partnered with 13 local NGOs…
How to Steal a Country
How to Steal a Country is the story of the Gupta family’s spectacular rise from flea market shoe salesmen to establishing a massive black owned business empire in South Africa. It runs as a suspenseful detective story uncovering one huge bribery scandal after another, involving the top echelons of political power and several well-known multinational…
Tell us how to manage Cape Town’s land
We have draft plans out for public comment that will affect the way our city’s land is used and developed, and you can have a say in the overall look and feel of Cape Town. The comment period ends Tuesday, 30 August 2022. Cape Town is a growing city and new developments, such as housing,…
OBSID public safety report
See the OBSID public safety report for May 2022 here.
River Club developers take interdict fight to SCA
The controversial R4.6-billion Liesbeeck River construction site is being packed up and plans are afoot to return the river to its original channel shape. File Picture: Ian Landsberg/African News Agency (ANA) Cape Town – The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust (LLPT) has filed an urgent application in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) for leave to…
Talking points for a propaganda campaign – Liesbeek Action Campaign
Paternalism, ethnocide, epistemicide: Talking points for a propaganda campaign 16 May 2022 The Liesbeek Action Campaign condemns a seemingly coordinated effort to spread misinformation about objections to the development at the River Club, Observatory, Cape Town. Several personalities with ties to the Democratic Alliance and the Institute for Race Relations have voiced their opinions on…
OBS Watch Update
Please join Observatory Neighbourhood Watch for our first community update and feedback session. Learn what the ObsWatch team has been doing to make our community a safer place, hear about our innovative approach to what a Neighbourhood Watch can be and do, and find how YOU can get involved. Open to members and prospective-members, so…
Another famous Goldberg emanating from Obs
From Cape Historical society #masekin : Morris Goldberg Morris was born in Observatory on the 25 October 1936. He was a famous South African soprano, alto, and tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist. Initially self-taught, as a teenager he began playing with the saxophonist Harold Jaftha in various Cape Town nightclubs. In 1960, shortly after completing…
Support over the Noise Bylaw revision
Click here see our letter of support to the Tennyson Rd Masjied on their campaign to revise the Noise Bylaw.