CapeTalk presenter Mike Wills speaks to Professor Leslie London, chairperson of the Observatory Civic Association.
The Goringhaicona Khoi Khoi Indigenous Traditional Council and the Observatory Civic Association have headed back to court as the fight over the development of the River Club precinct in Observatory drags on.
The site is being redeveloped for mixed-zone use, and will also be the new headquarters of American tech giant, Amazon.In March, Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath granted the interim interdict after finding there had been no meaningful consultation for the project with all the affected people.
The 14 hectares of land along the Liesbeek and Black rivers is sacred to the Khoi, as being the first site of their resistance to colonialist invasions.
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