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The River Club: Flawed processes and a dirty fight over development and heritage
Opinion
/ 29 October 2022

The River Club: Flawed processes and a dirty fight over development and heritage

This contentious development exposes our current approach to development, which is development at all costs, backed by politics, power and money

By Jens Horber
River Club property developers continue construction despite interim interdict
The Editors Picks
/ 15 July 2022

River Club property developers continue construction despite interim interdict

Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust maintains recommencement of construction not in contravention of the law

By Sheree Bega
Western Cape government appeals Amazon HQ judgment halting construction
The Green Guardian
/ 12 April 2022

Western Cape government appeals Amazon HQ judgment halting construction

Head of local government, environmental affairs and development planning Anton Bredell says judgment contains ‘number of errors’

By Sheree Bega
Right of reply: Read the petition, James Tannenberg, Khoi descendants don’t want their sacred heritage site ‘developed’
Opinion
/ 21 February 2022

Right of reply: Read the petition, James Tannenberg, Khoi descendants don’t want their sacred heritage site ‘developed’

The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust is again abusing the First Nations Collective; you don’t have the Khoi’s consent to pour concrete on a sacred floodplain

By Tauriq Jenkins and Leslie London
Right of reply: Kwet is wrong about Amazon’s new Cape Town HQ
Opinion
/ 3 February 2022

Right of reply: Kwet is wrong about Amazon’s new Cape Town HQ

A court application to halt the River Club development has been opposed by the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, the City of Cape Town and First Nations leaders

By James Tannenberger
Landmark battle over River Club imperils Amazon HQ plans
The Green Guardian
/ 28 January 2022

Landmark battle over River Club imperils Amazon HQ plans

If the high court in Cape Town rules for an interim interdict in the River Club project to halt building on heritage land, Amazon is likely to pull out

By Sheree Bega
Amazon’s colonial HQ in Cape Town must be stopped
Opinion
/ 26 January 2022

Amazon’s colonial HQ in Cape Town must be stopped

Wealthy foreign corporations colonise local markets and impose technologies of violence and control on local populations

By Michael Kwet and Tshiamo Malatji
Sisulu and her adviser implicated in R4bn Cape Town development with Amazon as tenant
The Green Guardian
/ 26 August 2021

Sisulu and her adviser implicated in R4bn Cape Town development with Amazon as tenant

Lindiwe Sisulu and her adviser are accused of meddling in a R4-billion development in a sensitive Cape Town area meant to house Amazon’s Africa office

By Sheree Bega
Fight over controversial redevelopment of River Club heads to court
The Green Guardian
/ 6 August 2021

Fight over controversial redevelopment of River Club heads to court

The R4.6-billion project, set to house Amazon’s new African headquarters, is on ‘sacred floodplain’, say applicants

By Sheree Bega
Amazon wants to pave ‘paradise to put up a parking lot’
The Green Guardian
/ 15 May 2021

Amazon wants to pave ‘paradise to put up a parking lot’

Opponents hope that billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott will ‘talk some sense’ into her former husband and Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos

By Sheree Bega

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