Observatory Civic Association

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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