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 economic and political relations between the developers and their civil society opponents are highly unequal.
River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communitiesRiver Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities by Steven Robins, Daily Maverick November 22, 2021 After walking along the Liesbeek River with Professor Leslie London, we stopped at the entrance to the River Club Centre in Observatory.
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