The proposed development in Cape Town has attracted anger as it lies at the confluence of two rivers considered sacred BRENTON GEACH/GETTY IMAGES Jessica Newman – 21 March 2022 Amazon has been dealt a blow after a court halted construction of the ecommerce company’s new African headquarters. Plans for the 70,000 sq m (750,000 sq…
Judge halts development at the River Club in Cape Town
The River Club development in Cape Town. File photo. Image: Esa Alexander TIMESLIVE – 20 March 2022 The Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust has been interdicted from carrying out further construction of a development at the River Club in Cape Town pending meaningful engagement with all affected people. Construction is already under way at the R4.5bn…
Court halts R4.5 billion Amazon development on sacred Khoi and San land
Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty – 21 March 2022 Western Cape Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath gave an interim interdict halting the R4.5 billion development in Observatory. Judge Goliath said the right to culture and heritage of indigenous groups, such as the Khoi and San people, was under threat. The building was to take place on a…
Court interdict halts construction of Amazon HQ in Cape Town
Staff writer, ITWeb – 21 March 2022 A court interdict filed by the organisers of the Liesbeek Action Campaign has halted the construction of the planned Amazon headquarters site in Cape Town. In January, the members of the Liesbeek Action Campaign, which includes indigenous groups and environmentalists, filed for an urgent court interdict against the…
Amazon Africa HQ development halted after successful interdict
Hundreds of people, consisting of Khoi and other First Nation, environmental and civic activists, march through the streets of the city protesting against the proposed new Amazon building on a particular site, and colonial-era statues standing in prominent positions in the inner city in Cape Town on June 16, 2021. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH /…
S. African Court Suspends Building at New Amazon Africa Site
People protesting against the Amazon building on a particular site, in Cape Town, on June 16, 2021. Photographer: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images Felix Njini and Loni Prinsloo – 20 March 2022 South Africa’s High Court has temporarily halted construction of Amazon.com Inc.’s planned new Africa headquarters in Cape Town and ordered the company to consult with…
Amazon’s Africa headquarters may be put on hold over indigenous people’s concerns
Alexander Onukwue – 21 March 2022 A South African court ordered Amazon to pause construction of its 4 billion rand ($300 million) headquarters in South Africa over concerns by indigenous people that the US company is defiling sacred land. The High Court in Cape Town, where the 37-acre site is located at the intersection of…
Court halts construction of Amazon’s Africa HQ on sacred land
Protesters during the Liesbeek Action Campaign on November 12, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. Anna Cooban – 21 March 2022 London (CNN Business)A South African judge has put the brakes on a $270 million real estate project that includes a regional headquarters for Amazon, saying that indigenous people who consider the land to be…
In Cape Town, an Indigenous Win on ‘Obscene’ Amazon Project
A protestor on Nov. 12, 2021, with a sign calling for a stop to tech giant Amazon building its African headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht) Jenn Gidman – 21 March 2022 Thousands of years ago, South Africa’s earliest dwellers roamed the land. Now, as Amazon tries to build its new African…
Activists celebrate court halting River Club development, as developers set to challenge ruling
Tauriq Jenkins, high commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoena Council, which has opposed the development from the start at The Liesbeek Action Campaign and World Water Day at Two Rivers Urban Park on March 21, 2022 in Manenberg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) Marvin Charles – 21 March 2022 Activists who have long fought…