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South Africa: River Club Was Not On Amazon's Short List - Court Papers
GroundUp, 2 December 2021
Opponents of the R4.5 billion property development at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black rivers in Cape Town have sought an urgent interdict to prevent building going ahead. Read more »
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South Africa: River Club - Utopian Fantasies of a High-Tech Concrete Jungle in a City of Broken Infrastructures and Fractured Communities
Daily Maverick, 22 November 2021
While the details of the land-use planning decision to rezone the River Club land for development has yet to be dissected in the courtroom, what has become very clear is that the… Read more »
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South Africa: Jobseekers Flock to Proposed Amazon Site in Cape Town
GroundUp, 26 August 2021
Hundreds queue at River Club development in the hope of getting work Read more »
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South Africa: Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust - Misinformation About the River Club Must Stop
Daily Maverick, 17 August 2021
Articles on the River Club development in Cape Town in Daily Maverick spread misinformation about the project despite the authors' claims having repeatedly been debunked by expert… Read more »
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South Africa: Cape Town's Heritage for Sale - Brownwashing the River Club
Daily Maverick, 12 August 2021
If greenwashing is disinformation disseminated to present an environmentally responsible public image, what the developers of The River Club project are engaging in might be called… Read more »
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South Africa: 'Walk of Resistance' Against Amazon Site
GroundUp, 17 June 2021
A petition signed by 50,000 people opposing the R4.5bn mega-development has been handed over to Mayor Dan Plato Read more »
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South Africa: Cape Town River Club to 'Enhance' Biodiversity, Developers Claim
Daily Maverick, 17 June 2021
The developers of the River Club in Cape Town have objected to a Daily Maverick article which claimed that the development was a potential 'biodiversity bomb' that posed a 'threat… Read more »