Indigenous peoples are actually in favour of River Club development

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Indigenous peoples are actually in favour of River Club development
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This will be the realisation of a dream we have fought for throughout the resurgence of the our people.

quotes a number of people who claim to speak on behalf of the First Nations people and who oppose the development of the River Club site.

The Gorinhaiqua Cultural Council agrees that the proposed development is located within an area which indisputably is part of the terrible history of our land, which caused the foundational peoples of that area to be put to the sword, dispossessed of their historical land, dispersed into the margins and subjected to a cultural and social genocide.

The significance of this area and the adjoining Oude Molen site, has been the subject of intense engagement between ourselves and numerous senior state officials, including, but not limited, to premiers of the Western Cape government, provincial ministers of several Western Cape government administrations, mayors of the City of Cape Town, the chief land claims commissioners, several ministers of national government and even the apex of governance, namely the presidency.

What we have discovered during this engagement process is that the developer has been open and empathetic to our concerns, which were placed on the table in a frank exchange of views. Of the many commitments that the developer has made, one of the most significant has been to allocate an area in the centre of this development, which is of great cultural significance to us, for the building of a World-First International Indigenous Media and Communication Centre.

The second point that has swayed us to give our unambiguous support to the development proposal is that the developer has committed to cleaning up and indigenising the ecology of the area and to ensuring that the spiritual and cultural symbols of the Khoi and the San finds resonance within the proposed development plan.

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