Dear Friends and supporters of the Liesbeek Action Campaign As you know, our nomination of the Two Rivers Urban Park for provincial heritage status in early 2020 was only processed by Heritage Western Cape in July this year. However, the HWC Council, when it met in July, agreed that the site is so important, that…
How to report a disturbance in Obs
As an Observatory resident, if you have a complaint regarding noise/disturbance/nuisance against an establishment in Observatory, please do the following: 1. Call 107 or 1011 to report the disturbance and obtain a reference number. Send the details of the complaint and reference no to [email protected] for record purposes and submission to the relevant authorities. 2….
Oude Molen Food Garden
Join the New Observatory Neighbourhood Watch!
Let’s create the way forward together in making Observatory the safest Neighbourhood in South Africa New ideas to create community and showing up for your Neighbours to make everyone feel safe and supported! Imagine group dog walking! Full moon bicycle rides! Street braais! Get involved! Sign up for free form : http://tinyurl.com/Sign-Up-ONW Join our AGM…
Dave Reynolds & Pops Mohamed: Documentary screening & Live Performance in Obs
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Social Issues Conversation
“Housed residents blame us for the crime.” “There are more and more people coming to live on the streets of Obs because they are being fed every day.” “The litter from those living on the streets is disgraceful.” “Homelessness is not a crime but the result of a failure in society.” “Those living on the…
Streetopia!
Whatever you do on Monday – make sure you VOTE!!
As soon as the IEC announced the list of 34 candidates standing to represent you in Ward 57, the OCA tried to track down email addresses for all of them, either through Facebook, google searches or through the political parties under whose banner they are standing. In the end we were able to make contact…
Find out who is contesting in your ward
If you haven’t come across this yet, have a look, and find the names of all the candidates in your ward, and see just how many hopeful popcorn parties are vying for your votes! You will notice that many candidates are contesting more than one ward. This is a way of trying to get as…
DID YOU KNOW?
In the last census (2011), Ward 57 ( covering all of 11.3sq kms) revealed a total population of fractionally under 30 000 In the last municipal elections (2016), only 55% of the 19 396 registered voters cast their vote. Of those, 75% voted for the DA leaving the ANC way behind with 11%, EFF 6%…