The two-year battle between the City of Cape Town and "politically connected" local businessman Fred Robertson has reached the courts, where he will fight the council's decision to deny him permission to move into his "illegally" built Bantry Bay mansion.
Robertson, the chief executive of listed black empowerment company Brimstone, may be forced to alter and remove sections of his recently completed Bantry Bay building after city councillors refused to grant an after-the-fact approval for the structure.
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