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Manfred Zylla Solo Exhibition – Oudtshoorn Portraits
We sat down with Manfred Zylla to chat about his exhibition he sketched at the Oudtshoorn Arts Festival 2007. The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival for the first time that year, as per Manfred, included the indigenous Khoi peoples and community as part of the festival. He there painted portraits of indigenous leaders, writers, poets,…
Koena Art Institute presents: Collin the Bushman
Obz car boot sale
Infilling of the Black River angers activists
Bulelwa Payi – 12 December 2021 The First Nations Khoi people, civic and environmental organisations are calling on the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) to urgently declare a protection order against the River Club development. This comes in the wake of the infilling of the Black River in Observatory, regarded as sacred by the…
River Club was not on Amazon’s short list – court papers
Stece Kretzman – 2 December 2021 Opponents of the R4.5 billion property development at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black rivers in Cape Town have sought an urgent interdict to prevent building going ahead. The project includes the new regional headquarters of corporate giant Amazon, and opponents have been warned that blocking the development…
River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities
By Steven Robins – 22 Nov 2021 While the details of the land-use planning decision to rezone the River Club land for development has yet to be dissected in the courtroom, what has become very clear is that the economic and political relations between the developers and their civil society opponents are highly unequal. After…
Media executive linked to River Club developer
Steve Kretzmann – 30 November 2021 In June this year, the publication Cape{town}etc published an editorial criticising the controversial River Club development in Observatory, Cape Town. The editorial was swiftly removed. Over the next week, three articles favourable to the development were published. On 1 July, Kevin Ferguson, the chief executive of Highbury Media, which…
#MakeAmazonPay campaign hits Cape Town
By Bulelwa Payi – Nov 28, 2021 When activists and employees of Amazon staged protests against the tech giant across the world on Black Friday, calls on the company to end its “colonial indifference”, also echoed across a contested site in Observatory. A group of indigenous people, land activists and civic associations waved placards on…
