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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

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)

Pitfalls of the ‘mallification’ of our cities

It seem that massive corporations and property developers control Cape Town and other centres, with big land parcels going their way for low prices

Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council high commissioner Tauriq Jenkins leads a protest march against the development Photos: ER Lombard/Gallo Images & Rodger Bosch/AFP

Court victory for Amazon’s SA headquarters

udgment halting the River Club development in Cape Town was ‘induced by fraud’, full bench of the Western Cape high court finds

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

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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

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

Right of reply: A rejoinder to the Zenprop chief executive about Amazon’s HQ

Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article

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)

Coastal exclusive estates have social, economic and environmental impacts

They can have positive and negative effects, such as restricting small-scale fishers access to the ocean or restoring endemic fauna

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

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

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River Club redevelopment is a triumph for the future of First Nations’ heritage

Right of reply to How to whitewash colonial pain and trauma, published in the Mail & Guardian 24 September

South Africa’s land reform journey is still shaped by the legacies of colonial conquest and apartheid.
(Madelene Cronjé)

How to whitewash colonial pain and trauma

Approval of the River Club development in Cape Town is reminiscent of those bulldozing spatial planners of apartheid