Finally - We Got Our Day(s) In Court!

18 January 2022

Dear <<First Name>>,

The long awaited day of reckoning has arrived at last. Tomorrow Wednesday the 19th of January, Justice Goliath will start the 3 day long hearing at 10am. We will be live-streaming it to our OCA Facebook page from 10am till 4pm on all 3 days and you can watch the live stream here:

https://fb.me/e/e3hqxtI7z

There are also a number of other events lined up to draw attention to the Court Case:

Blessing ceremony at High Court, Keerom St – Wed 19th 8.30 – 9.30am

Press conference on High Court steps at end of day’s court proceedings (approx. 4.30-5pm) Wed 19th

Placard protest at High Court steps Thurs 20th 9am to 1pm

Press conference at St George’s Cathedral hall – Thursday 20th 1-2 pm

End of court hearing ceremony outside High Court at end of day’s court proceedings (approx. 4.30-5pm) Friday 21st

As usual, I wish to remind you that this court case is extremely costly and therefor implore you to dig into your pockets and see how you can support us financially by using any of these links: https://www.liesbeek.org/donate

Our video explaining what we are fighting for can be viewed on our social pages:

https://www.facebook.com/liesbeekactioncampaign/posts/653303822755761
https://twitter.com/LiesbeekAction/status/1481928452089524228
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYtM3ToqdHx/

Please feel free to share our existing posts, or create your own, whatever you think is best.

That you for having supported us to get our voices heard in the High Court

Kind regards

Edwin Angless
OCA Comms

Our Court Interdict will be livestreamed!

17 JAN 2022 —

Today we saw the appearance of poles along the Liesbeek signalling that the developers are likely to close off the original Liesbeek river from public access, presumably as a prelude to infilling the river course. The interdict hearing could therefore not have arrived a day too soon. We hope the judge will put a stop to this horrible destruction of the environment and annihilation of Khoi heritage.

Ironically, the former Minister of Water and Sanitation, in her recent blistering and widely condemned attack on the constitution, bemoaned the lack of attention to customary law and indigenous rights under what she framed as colonial legal systems. However, she is the same minister who gave the River Club developers a helping hand to destroy Khoi heritage by uplifting the suspension of the Water Use License triggered by our appeal, which is yet to be heard by the Water Tribunal. Even more ironic is that she is helping, Amazon, the wealthiest corporation in the world establish its headquarters on a floodplain that is sacred to indigenous people. How colonial can that be?...

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

We stand for the truth and we stand for justice

16 Jan 2022

On Wednesday 19th January, the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council and the Observatory Civic Association will be in the High Court seeking an interdict to stop the construction at the River Club which threatens to irrevocably destroy the intangible heritage of the sacred site and contravene numerous environmental sustainability policies.

We have been threatened, intimidated and warned to stop speaking out. We are being falsely accused of all kinds of miscreant behaviour by parties who will seemingly stop at nothing to get their way. But we will not back down because we stand for the truth and we stand for justice...

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Why South Africa should cancel Amazon’s new HQ

Michael Kwet - 18 Jan 2022

On January 19, Amazon faces a major court showdown over the construction of its new headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. The Indigenous Khoi and San peoples, environmentalists and other activists are asking the South African High Court to interdict the project, which sits on ancestral Indigenous land and will have a detrimental effect on the local environment.

If plans for the new headquarters go forward, the company will also further entrench its neocolonial dominance and exploitative economic model on the African continent. Despite lucrative promises of jobs and revenue from the government, Amazon’s expansion will not benefit the average South African and will bring more labour exploitation and likely enable more surveillance-based policing of poor and marginalised communities...

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Liesbeek Action Campaign demonstration ahead of court hearing over River Club development

Rafieka Williams - 18 Jan 2022

Cape Town - The Liesbeek Action Campaign (LAC) is this week hosting a string of demonstrations including an interfaith service and a picket outside the River Club, ahead of their Western Cape High Court hearing on Wednesday.

The campaign has made several attempts to stop the R4.6 billion River Club development project by the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust, the latest being an interdict at the Western Cape High Court calling for the development, which has already started, to stop...

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

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