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A view of the land where the new River Club development is located. (David Harrison)

Interrogating the claims of Amazon developer James Tannenberger

Setting out the concrete facts in the Amazon-linked development in Cape Town in which Transnet sold land for a song

File photo: Supporters of the  Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council at the Western Cape High Court on July 27, 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa.  (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Response to ‘Pitfalls of mallification in our cities’

The author says the opinion piece was the latest in a years-long campaign of misinformatio​​n about the River Club

The River Club Development.

Attacks against River Club redevelopment: Same lies, different day

It is unfortunate that despite the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust having repeatedly debunked the accusations made by Jens Horber, he continues trying to drive this…

A view of the land where the new River Club development is located. (David Harrison)

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

River Club.

River Club property developers continue construction despite interim interdict

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

A view of the land where the new River Club development is located. (David Harrison)

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

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

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

Construction work has already begun to transform the River Club into a site where Amazon wants to situate its headquarters in Cape Town. (Photo by Gallo Images/ER Lombard)

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

A Cape Town civic organisation says former minister of water and sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu has “usurped” the powers of the water tribunal by uplifting the suspension of a water use licence issued to the developers of the multibillion-rand redevelopment of the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town.

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