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Grant Two Rivers site heritage status
Cape Town – Heritage Western Cape (HWC) says the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP) area should be assessed for Grade I heritage status. Grade I heritage resources are exceptional and considered to be of national significance, and are identified and managed by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA). This follows discussions held with interested…
RAMPAC comments on the Table Bay district plan
6 th June, 2021 For Attention: [email protected] DISTRICT SDF COMMENT : FOR THE TABLE BAY PLANNING DISTRICT As a grouping of planning, heritage and urban design professionals living in and with a community-based interest primarily in the Rosebank and Mowbray area our concerns also lie with those parts of the city that are integral to the…
OBSID comments on the Table Bay district plan
The OBSID Board of Directors is submitting these comments to the Table Bay LSDF from the perspective of the future requirements for urban management in Observatory, where we operate as a Special Ratings Area urban management organisation. We note that the major trends for the future of Observatory include: – Continued densification of both Observatory…
OCA comments on the Table Bay district plan
To the Table Bay District Plan Officer City of Cape Town 8001 District SDF Comment: For the Table Bay Planning District The Observatory Civic Association welcomes the opportunity to comments on the Draft Table Bay District Plan 2021. By way of commencing our comments, we refer to two other submissions: The submission of the…
Comments on the proposal to amend the Western Cape Constitution to abolish the position of Environmental Commissioner:
60 Trill Road Observatory 7925 31st May 2021 To the Standing Committee on Premier and Constitutional Matters Western Cape Provincial Parliament Wale St Cape Town Email: [email protected] 1. The Observatory Civic Association wishes to make the following comments as input to the Western Cape parliamentary discussion on the abolition of the Environmental Commissioner from the Western…
REQUEST FOR UNDERTAKING TO DELAY ALTERATION OF RIVER CLUB SITE
To all our supporters (and there are thankfully thousands of you), We are starting our legal battle today. In the link below is a letter to the developers drafted by our lawyers on our instructions, asking the LLPT to indicate that, given the importance of the matter, they will stay any commencement of any earth works,…
a Word from our Chair May 2021
Thousands of supporters want to make the Liesbeek Matter! This was quite a week. Not only did the ANC suspend its secretary-general, and the US president did a flip to support the global call for a waiver of Intellectual Property Protection for COVID-19 vaccines, but the numbers of supporters of our cause has rocketed since…
OCA’s open letter to McKenzie Scott – former wife of Jeff Bezos and the third richest woman in the world with a net worth of $53 billion 04 May 2021
Dear Ms Mckenzie Scott I write to you as the chair of the Observatory Civic Association, a small community civic in Cape Town, South Africa that prides itself on active citizenry towards civic democracy. Our Civic, which has a long history of community activism, is currently partnered with more than60 First Nation Khoi Indigenous organisations,…
The River Club development: What is really at stake?
By Leslie London Leslie London is chairperson of the Observatory Civic Association. He has been a human rights activist in the health sector for many years and has become involved in civic democracy, more recently helping to found, with other civic activists, the network of Civic Action for Public Participation (CAPP), which is committed to…
When it flows, it floods
By Tauriq Jenkins Tauriq Jenkins is Supreme High Commissioner for the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Indigenous Council under Paramount Chief Aran In 1996, the Khoi and San were not part of the Constitution. Then President Thabo Mbeki’s “I am an African” speech, with the founding of South Africa’s Constitution, would remain in its nascent stage…