Amazon’s Africa HQ would have been ‘built by now’ had the developer chosen another site in CapeTown, says indigenous council leader. Moneyweb
The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust lost little time in submitting an application to the Western Cape division of the High Court to appeal last week’s ruling by the same court which stopped the construction of a R4.6 billion office development project in Cape Town – which includes a head office for the US giant Amazon to serve the African continent.
in particular, rejects claims by the applicants that public participation was lacking and that they were excluded from consultations. “The Court erred in finding that the impugned authorisations were granted absent of proper and meaningful consultation with all affected First Nations Peoples,” states the application.
says it is in the interests of justice that leave to appeal be granted, where a decision such as this is final in effect and in substance and where the harm that flows from it is serious, immediate, ongoing and irreparable. In addition to the formal legal proceedings, both the developer and the activists are far from shy about airing their grievances in public.
from carrying out any construction work, the
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