Please join us for a Town Hall meeting open to everyone on Tuesday 27 September to discuss the River Club development. Date: 27 September 2022 Time: 17h30 Venue: TBA
Feedback from our readers
Dear OCA, I am a resident of Observatory and do not agree with your campaign. I have followed your objections for several years and it was only in the final stage of the objections did you bring to the front the heritage and first nation issues as the primary issue. In principal your argument is…
Professor Adam Haupt’s support of the LAC
Click here to watch a YouTube video by Professor Adam Haupt on the River Club development and his support for the Liesbeek Action Campaign.
Mowbray Cemetery takes innovative step forward by geotagging gravesites
Zaid Kriel – 19 September 2022 The Mowbray Cemetery in Cape Town is an important cultural location for Cape Town’s Muslim community. It was established in the late 1800s. Many a Muslim resident of the Mother City has a relative who is buried at the cemetery. Now the Muslim Cemetery Board, which manages the burial…
Hong Kong’s colorful new ‘pocket parks’ are revitalizing public spaces
Rebecca Cairns – 19 September 2022 Bright pink and scattered with octagonal stools, Portland Street Rest Garden is an Instagrammer’s dream. But this park, wedged between two high rises on a bustling Hong Kong street, isn’t filled with influencers posing for photos: instead, local retirees play checkers on fuchsia gameboards, while elderly neighbors gossip on…
Join us on the Liesbeek for World Rivers Day 25 September 2022
Please join us on Sunday the 25th of September for a clean-up and weeding along the Liesbeek River to shed light on the challenges of rivers in cities, to restore their functioning, and to celebrate this ecological corridor. Place: Observatory Section opposite Hartleyvale Stadium Time: 12-2pm Bring: gloves, hats, and water Litter pickers and trash…
Invite to join Obs resident Mia Aderne in discussion about her novel Mermaids Fillet
The UCT Department of English Literary Studies and the Institute for Creative Arts warmly invite you to join us for a discussion between Dr Maria Geustyn (UCT) and Mia Arderne about her debut novel Mermaid Fillet (2020) on Friday 30 September at 16h00. Mia is a Cape Town-based author and writer with bylines in the…
Open letter to all civics in Cape Town
Dear Civic members I write to you to appeal for your Civic association’s support for the applicants in the River Club case following two months of sustained dirty tricks intended, as we believe, to protect the LLPT from being held to account for contempt of Judge Goliath’s historic interdict against the LLPT in March 2022….
Four former OCA chairs support the current OCA.
An Observatory resident and former OCA chair, Bovain MacNab (2007-2009) recently publicly criticised the OCA and its leadership and joined a call for a takeover of the OCA in order to stop our involvement in the court case against the River Club. We believe that this is part of a wider effort to protect the…
An anonymous website was launched last week with the sole intention of spreading lies about the OCA
Not only does this one website (bestforobs) contain 74 lies, but extracts from this website have been printed out as glossy, expensive pamphlets and posted in your letterboxes. These malicious pamphlets are defamatory, racist and patronising to indigenous peoples. The OCA has laid charges with the Equality Court and also referred these pamphlets to Woodstock…