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South Africa: Court Stops R4.5-Billion River Club Development, Including New Amazon Headquarters
GroundUp, 20 March 2022
The R4.5-billion development at the River Club site in Observatory has been stopped, with a court ruling that the developers must "consult meaningfully" with all affected people. Read more »
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South Africa: Planned Amazon Headquarters' Construction Meets Legal Barrier
VOA, 21 March 2022
South Africa's Indigenous Khoi and San people are in court to block construction of the planned African headquarters for online retail giant Amazon. Opponents say the project will… Read more »
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Daily Maverick, 23 January 2022
Final arguments in favour of and against continuing the Liesbeek development were heard on the last day of hearings of an urgent interdict against the project. Advocates emphasised… Read more »
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South Africa: Liesbeek Development 'Better for Indigenous Cultural Heritage', Counsel Argues, While Raising Fears Amazon Could Pull Out
Daily Maverick, 20 January 2022
The development in Cape Town will better represent the cultural significance of the Khoisan community, the developer and Western Cape province argued in court on Thursday. It was… Read more »
Indigenous South Africans Go to Court, Stall Amazon Building Devt
The U.S.$301 million development at the River Club site in Observatory, Cape Town has been stopped, with a court ruling that the developers must "consult meaningfully" with all affected people, writes Tania Broughton for GroundUp.
Indigenous Khoi and San people went to court to block construction of the planned African headquarters for online retail giant Amazon. Opponents say the project will ruin a historically significant riverside site in Cape Town and harm the environment.
"We're in a situation where a terrain that is so sacred to the people of our country is not just under threat, but being damaged and destroyed as we speak," said Tauriq Jenkins, high commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council (GKKITC), which is among the groups fighting the project.
The GKKITC previously filed an interdict against the construction along the Liesbeek River. This was in opposition to the The First Nations Collective, a fellow group of Khoisan members, who support the initiative.
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The Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council (GKKITC) has filed an interdict against Amazon's ongoing construction development in Cape Town along the Liesbeek River Read more »
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Papers before the Western Cape High Court have cast doubt on claims that thousands of jobs will be lost if the controversial U.S.$280.7 million property development at the River ... Read more »
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Over 500 years ago, South Africa's indigenous Khoi and San population fought off a Portuguese attack in one of the first, and most successful, anti-colonial battles in Africa. ... Read more »
About 100 people marched through Cape Town city centre to deliver a petition with 50,000 signatures objecting to the proposed Amazon development at the Two Rivers Urban Park (file photo).
