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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

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

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’

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

The Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Council and Observatory Civic Association says that application for leave to appeal interim interdict is attempt to save face

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

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

Appeal: Mackenzie Scott and former husband and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Imagesv

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