tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-271224452024-03-22T14:08:50.951+02:00Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers & AssociationThe aim of the Association is to foster interaction among ratepayers and residents of Camps Bay, Bakoven and Clifton through membership of the Association, and to increase understanding of civic issues and to develop a sense of civic pride. We are striving to keep the unique character of Camps Bay and Clifton intact.Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.comBlogger774125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-67902334468405221682024-02-03T10:11:00.001+02:002024-02-20T10:13:54.174+02:00West End hit Lungs comes to Camps Bay stage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYYubpD_44e67s9Xq2mJzJxFhcml6SCuGw7x9SYyajXLe82lqtYCg1PsjKuHK01UCjOglhmLj2laC_mVxRlnrrEwg4WF3rSAit8SErOYHecS5Jqz-rfyRV8w1gCZsPaJgl5ta42yVnoK6x4U9Wx6R5wzI1aqJo3smcIUicmsoNWOkyB8YKRor/s3000/imengine.public.prod.inl.infomaker-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYYubpD_44e67s9Xq2mJzJxFhcml6SCuGw7x9SYyajXLe82lqtYCg1PsjKuHK01UCjOglhmLj2laC_mVxRlnrrEwg4WF3rSAit8SErOYHecS5Jqz-rfyRV8w1gCZsPaJgl5ta42yVnoK6x4U9Wx6R5wzI1aqJo3smcIUicmsoNWOkyB8YKRor/w640-h360/imengine.public.prod.inl.infomaker-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #787878; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jazzara Jaslyn and Sanda Shandu star in Lungs. PICTURE: Claude Barnardo</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Duncan MacMillan’s West End hit play</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><em id="emphasis-3c8c796aa7d71e2e4a3d53fcb283cd51" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Lungs</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">will be presented by The Quickening Theatre company and Gloucester Productions from Wednesday February 7 to Saturday February 24 at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A young urban couple consider whether or not to have a child in today’s toxic and insecure environment, beset by global warming and political unrest.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The play is directed by Bianca Amato, with Jazzara Jaslyn and Sanda Shandu as the couple.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">There is an age restriction of 13. Performances are Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7.30pm, with Saturday matinees at 3pm.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tickets cost from R160 to R250 through Webtickets or the theatre box-office on 021 438 3301</p><div class="td-author-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; opacity: 0.5;">By </div><a href="https://www.atlanticsun.co.za/author/staff-reporter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none;">Staff Reporter</a><span style="font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="td-post-date td-post-date-no-dot" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; opacity: 0.5; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2024-02-01T10:38:50+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">February 1, 2024</time></span>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-11087966786068215352024-02-02T10:08:00.001+02:002024-02-20T10:11:20.336+02:00Excellent water quality results refute Camps Bay misinformation, says City CPT<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGIde-XgJzBOMNbBwexQeOhtWqsXSzwJ16ddQ06oHt41ISqDNWUAidv_tS7vODS0UOSbQbUB128IwFfZW-XTxQVy9lT56zAAwMAU9AY26WMfAbCmXCsnZCurx4bX58i9SHK2pft0buVHl1JGCOWNOEXGYQNKWcb1eQq1P4M4skobLAGzarLsY/s601/imengine.public.prod.inl.infomaker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="601" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGIde-XgJzBOMNbBwexQeOhtWqsXSzwJ16ddQ06oHt41ISqDNWUAidv_tS7vODS0UOSbQbUB128IwFfZW-XTxQVy9lT56zAAwMAU9AY26WMfAbCmXCsnZCurx4bX58i9SHK2pft0buVHl1JGCOWNOEXGYQNKWcb1eQq1P4M4skobLAGzarLsY/w640-h360/imengine.public.prod.inl.infomaker.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>T<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">he latest water quality sampling results for Camps Bay are excellent as per analysis by the independent SABS Laboratory, says the City in a media release.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It said samples taken on Friday January 19, and released on Monday evening, January 22, refute misinformation on social media about the beach and its coastal water quality.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The City said over the past few weeks a social media user has been spreading misinformation that lighter patches along the shoreline at Camps Bay and Green Point are indicative of sewage</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Eddie Andrews, the City’s deputy mayor and Mayco member for spatial planning and environment, said on January 19, the City undertook an open and transparent water quality sampling test at Camps Bay in the white discoloured area, and off Granger Bay. This is where the same kelp mucus was seen that was presented as sewage on social media.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The City said it invited a representative from the Camps Bay community, an independent civil engineer, and an independent marine scientist, to witness the sampling and the community representative even went with to deliver the six water samples at the independent SABS Laboratory for analysis.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“We received the results from the SABS for all six samples on the evening of Monday, January 22. As expected, the results for all samples are excellent by global standards of coastal water quality,” said Mr Andrews.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The water samples were analysed by the SABS Lab for the number of enterococci per 100ml, the World Health Organization’s Gold Standard for water quality analysis. The cut-off is 180 enterococci per 100ml. In some cases nothing was detected in the samples, and in some the count was as low as 1.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“Coastal water quality sampling in Cape Town is done more often than at any other coastal city in South Africa. The results and supportive data are published on our website, and are accessible to all as part of our commitment to transparency about the water quality along our coastline,” Mr Andrews said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">He said the natural breakdown of kelp, algae and phytoplankton in Cape Town’s waters is very common and both have an unpleasant smell and discolouration. “Foam on the water’s surface or on the beach is as a result of the organic matter breaking down, not sewage. I can therefore assure all that the white colouration at Camps Bay is not caused by any human pollution, but is most likely calcium carbonate leaching from the beach and nearshore environment,” Mr Andrews said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The City’s latest coastal water quality sampling results show excellent water quality for Camps Bay, and across key recreational beaches and nodes. The results can be viewed at: <a href="https://bit.ly/3Z5EwDY" id="link-1bee837c5be58df4b691703377400889" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">https://bit.ly/3Z5EwDY</a></p><div class="td-post-author-name" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><div class="td-author-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; opacity: 0.5;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3T58SGw">https://bit.ly/3T58SGw</a></div></div><div><div class="td-post-author-name" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><div class="td-author-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; opacity: 0.5;">By</div> <a href="https://www.atlanticsun.co.za/author/own-correspondent" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; text-decoration-line: none;">OWN Correspondent</a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="td-post-date td-post-date-no-dot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; opacity: 0.5; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2024-01-31T04:00:00+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">January 31, 2024</time></span></p></div>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-30077524759199259712024-01-21T10:05:00.001+02:002024-02-20T10:08:19.773+02:00Camps Bay Blue Flag lowered and raised again 24 hours later<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Rags and fats were to blame for the clogged sewage and resultant spill at Camps Bay beach on Saturday, according to the City of Cape Town.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Eyewitnesses say the mess flowed onto the popular beach.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa was questioned regarding awarding Blue Flag certification to the beach last year (<a id="link-ee86df347b6b83e69313778c952b6a94" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6;">Questions about Cape Town’s Blue Flag beaches, October 26, 2023</a>), much to the dismay of environmentalists.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The City of Cape Town was notified of the inconvenience and cleaned up the debris within hours of the incident.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Blue flag was lowered and raised again during this time.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“The sewage leak was reported to me at 11.37am by a member of the public. I immediately made contact with the City of Cape Town and instructed them to lower the flag. The City confirmed the flag was lowered as of 12.35pm and indicated that teams would be responding to the incident. The blockage was cleared on the same day at around 6.13pm,” said Tevya Lotriet, the senior sustainability programme manager for WESSA.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“After the City cleared the blockage and contaminated sand, the cause was confirmed to be rags (foreign objects) as well as fats blocking the line. The sewage did not reach the ocean. The flag was raised again the next day (Sunday) during the lifeguard operational hours,” she said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The City’s Mayoral committee member for water and sanitation, Zahid Badroodien confirmed the blockage and the cause.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“The spill did not reach the ocean. The cause of the blockage was foreign objects in the system, namely rags and fats,” said Dr Badroodien.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">He added that residents are reminded that they can help prevent such sewer blockages and overflows by:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Disposing of unwanted materials using the appropriate solid waste collections and disposal services.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Ensuring only human waste, toilet paper and grey water be disposed via sinks and toilets in homes and communities. It is illegal for residents to place any another materials into the system because it causes overflows due to blockage.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Putting a strainer in the sink to catch food or other waste before it goes down the drain and creates blockages.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Wiping cooking fats, oil or grease off the pan, and don’t pour it down the drain.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Not flushing nappies and sanitary products, they absorb water and expand, which causes blockages.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Checking that rainwater gutters don’t flow into the sewer system, as it overloads the system.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">• Visiting the City’s drop-off facilities to dispose of recyclables, electronics, garage waste and builder’s rubble.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mark Jackson, an environmental activist and film-maker, says that this was not a once-off problem as he receives complaints about sewage spills via Facebook and WhatsApp regularly.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“I do hear of sewage spills every other week and the mess does reach the beach, so people have seen it and they do speak about it. It seems that the City’s sewage system is under capacity and the City needs to invest in improving it,” Mr Jackson said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“Today (Tuesday, January 16), I was notified of another sewage mess on the beach, and Dr Badroodien is correct in recommending that people should not dispose of wet wipes. They (the City) should consider implementing a by-law prohibiting the use of these wet wipes. I must just add that despite objections, plans are in the works to build a 100-bed hotel that will add to this problem,” he said, referring to the development of the hotel on Beach Road.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Source Sans Pro, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://bit.ly/4bDbsuF">https://bit.ly/4bDbsuF</a></span></p><div class="td-post-author-name" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><div class="td-author-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; opacity: 0.5;">By</div> <a href="https://www.atlanticsun.co.za/author/shahied-joseph" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; text-decoration-line: none;">Shahied Joseph</a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="td-post-date td-post-date-no-dot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; opacity: 0.5; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2024-01-18T13:18:00+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">January 18, 2024</time></span></p>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-61478986432469437632023-12-04T10:47:00.002+02:002023-12-04T10:47:21.190+02:00CBCRA AFS 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9A5U8tWE97AthVq9tQG3BUwdcIAsxOnRU5OhqMXwSX6vHXEGsxSBFX8hd22EScG0qke5QnFa5UswST0ZNcyiH9Fum4J3tXksi1Agt95NfVmM0kqRnzMXFveFlt0UZVx0QSaWl2hbjeaBWUmRES7ojs4dtkYrY-J2m9LwtMUClxubZaQIYrRx/s2339/AFS%202022%20-%20CBCRA_Page_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #476584;">CBCRA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING</span></h2></div></td></tr><tr><td class="mceBlockContainer" style="padding: 12px 24px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="mceText" data-block-id="18" id="dataBlockId-18" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 612px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Please join us at the CBCRA AGM 2023 <br /><strong>TONIGHT</strong> Monday 04 December 2023 </p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">17h30 - registration</p><p class="last-child" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">18h00 - start of the meeting</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="mceBlockContainer" style="background-color: #dfe8f0; padding: 12px 24px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="mceText" data-block-id="15" id="dataBlockId-15" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 612px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED TONIGHT INCLUDE:</p><ul class="last-child" style="text-align: center;"><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">The unlawfully approved plans for the 100-room hotel on the Beachfront and the legal battle by CBCRA</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><em>Guest speaker: Dr Leon van Rensburg</em></p></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">How the City claim that the 55 million litres of raw sewerage that it pumps into the Atlantic seaboard is healthy</p></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Dealing with the homeless</p></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Camps Bay cleaning </p></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">The establishment of a CID in Camps Bay</p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="mceBlockContainer" style="background-color: transparent; padding: 12px 24px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="mceText" data-block-id="16" id="dataBlockId-16" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 612px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong><span style="color: #476584;"><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">VENUE</span></span></strong><br />Camps Bay High School Hall, Lower Kloof Rd, Camps Bay</p><p class="last-child" style="direction: ltr; 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All rights reserved.</em><br /><br /></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-51981664352947126552023-11-16T11:55:00.003+02:002023-11-16T11:55:26.173+02:00CID Voting<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;">A friendly reminder that if you haven’t yet voted for the Camps Bay CID, please do so here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://campsbaycid.org/vote-now/" style="font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;">https://campsbaycid.org/vote-now/</a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;">We need the votes in as soon as possible to have any chance of establishing the CID next year, otherwise it may be delayed until 2025 or later. With CBCSI ceasing to exist next year, this would leave us with no community-wide security solution for at least a year.</span></p><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;">Thank you for your support. Vote here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://campsbaycid.org/vote-now/" style="font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;">https://campsbaycid.org/vote-now/</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">*CID Voting Update*</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">As of 9am on 16 November, 9.5 days after voting opened, the CID has crossed the halfway mark towards the required number of 1,724 yes votes. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">So far, </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">1. 956 <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>votes have been received, of which 899 are positive and 57 are negative </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">2. This means that 94% of votes received are positive </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">3. A similar percentage of people who were undecided in pre-vote polling have voted yes </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">4. Over a third of people who indicated during pre-vote polling that they would vote no have gone on to vote yes instead </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">5. For people who indicated during pre-vote polling that they would vote yes, less than 2% have changed their minds </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">While these results are very encouraging, there is still a lot of hard work to do if we are to meet our mid-December target date to reach 1,724 votes, and implement the CID on 1 July next year. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">If you’re a property owner and haven’t voted yet, please do so today. Vote online here: <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://campsbaycid.org/vote-now/?fbclid=IwAR1rsentxUYWDwG0wVS5RatOaqIiy8CJw3qLj6R8_sDYtAOXDrRDfqjqWZM" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://campsbaycid.org/vote-now/</a></span> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">CBCID Steering Committee</div></div></div>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-27861121564567211302023-11-15T09:54:00.001+02:002024-02-20T09:59:06.873+02:00CBCRA takes building matter to court<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZ7VpoI3-X_7Fbv3K4xjVuH5drteTPzE3exs5kaWdpMEPDSDh2qA8lbzxT-d5E6Od9_4mUfMCfwrHpbNjQVhfgAh-YkBdQ2miG5uC97sAs4cJPzL_Ldj0aSq0mZVMDBHYO3rPbxubEqGyyqs-tM17x3fYYH66nOE1gh-kO2HyWOS__7IPsovb/s631/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%2009.54.35.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="631" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZ7VpoI3-X_7Fbv3K4xjVuH5drteTPzE3exs5kaWdpMEPDSDh2qA8lbzxT-d5E6Od9_4mUfMCfwrHpbNjQVhfgAh-YkBdQ2miG5uC97sAs4cJPzL_Ldj0aSq0mZVMDBHYO3rPbxubEqGyyqs-tM17x3fYYH66nOE1gh-kO2HyWOS__7IPsovb/w400-h301/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%2009.54.35.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><figure class="article-body-image-wrapper crop-landscape" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #787878; float: left; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px 10px 20px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The construction has been going on for months now <br /><div style="text-align: center;">but the ratepayers are taking the matter to court.</div></span></figcaption><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #787878; float: left; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px 10px 20px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">The Camps Bay and Clifton Ratepayers’ Association (CBCRA) are going to court at the end of November to oppose a hotel development in Camps Bay.</span></figcaption><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px 10px 20px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">A five-star hotel designed by Scott and Partners is under way on Erf 3349 on Victoria Road.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">The Place of the Bay hotel once stood on the site “<a href="https://www.atlanticsun.co.za/news/ratepayers-ready-to-halt-beachfront-development-390adec5-bf15-4341-abe6-b5749fcd3c71#:~:text=The%20Place%20on%20the%20Bay,centre%20of%20a%20court%20case.&text=The%20site%20in%20question%20is,the%20Bay%20hotel%20once%20stood." id="link-5559a009a105edc1dc00b5cd61de105b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; text-decoration-line: none;">Ratepayers ready to halt beachfront development</a>, March 9, 2023”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">In a statement, the CBCRA accused the City of Cape Town of bias.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The City has now clearly shown its bias in this matter and its slavish desire to assist unwanted and undesirable development in our world-renowned village.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“In a sworn affidavit before the High Court, a senior City planning official finally conceded that it had incorrectly approved the plans which permit the development of this monster development, which will forever destroy Camps Bay’s iconic beachfront.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The CBCRA had pointed out this illegality in the plans, relating to the height of the building (15m instead of the permitted 10m) months ago but, somehow, it took this long for the City planners to actually ‘notice’ the problem.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“However, the City is undeterred and has accepted and approved “rider” plans from the developer, to ‘overcome’ this problem. Unsurprisingly, it did the approval in a couple of weeks, rather than waiting time for planning approval offered to the general public, which is months or years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“Legally, it is not allowed to do this. Once the City has approved plans, it becomes functus officio and cannot in any way amend the plans, as this is the jurisdiction of the courts. The City knows this well and has, over the years, used this legal dictate to tell this ratepayer association (as well as many others in Cape Town) that, even though it concedes a planning problem in some approval, it cannot move to change it as only the High Court can do so (with the associated costs).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“Suddenly, with a very wealthy developer (the site cost R230m) who is unlikely to be too charmed with the City’s ineptitude, the law seems to have magically changed for certain well-paid City officials.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“Further, in a similar case some years ago, which also involved the CBCRA, the presiding judge ruled that a rider plan cannot rescue the unlawfulness of the principal approval (Para 15 of Camps Bay Residents Ratepayers Association and Others v XXX and Others (2005/2009) [2009] ZAWCHC 30; 2009 (6) SA 190 (WCC) (24 March 2009).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The CBCRA further alleges that the City planners, at the behest of the developer – and behind closed doors and with no public participation – simply changed a decision of the original planning approval to accommodate the developer. This relates to allowing 49 parking bays in lieu of the 120 required.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">The CBCRA said it is certainly not opposed to development that is “sensible, sensitive and sustainable – and within the law”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The City has desperately attempted to delay this matter and managed to get the court date of 18 October postponed to 27 November 2023, all to allow the developer to build further and possibly render our legal application nugatory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The developer’s builder has worked illegal hours, abused the public resources of the pedestrian pavements, allows its vehicles to block traffic and drive in the wrong direction in one-way streets, has blocked an entire street without any permit and even destroyed the root system of the iconic tree at the corner of The Fairway and Victoria Road, leading to the felling of that landmark in Camps Bay’s history.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">City of Cape Town spokesperson, Luthando Tyhalibongo, said the plans are compliant and responded to the CBCRA.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The ratepayer association’s attack on the City and its officials is unfounded. In its High Court review application, the association makes misleading and false claims of ‘unlawfulness’ such as (CBCRA chairman Chris) Willemse indicating that the reduction in parking is ‘blatantly unlawful’. That was, as Mr Willemse is aware, however, done due to an amendment to the law in 2019. The 2019 reduction in parking requirements for hotels was publicly advertised.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start;">“The City has refuted all of the association’s review grounds. One error however required correction as the City found that a small part of the fifth-storey, which has not yet been built, would have breached the height limit. This was corrected on 17 October 2023 with an amendment to the building plan. As that part of the hotel had not been built, the height limit was therefore never breached.”</p><div class="td-post-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 17px; text-align: start;"><header class="td-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="td-module-meta-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1;"><div class="td-post-author-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><div class="td-author-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; opacity: 0.5;">By</div> <a href="https://www.atlanticsun.co.za/author/shahied-joseph" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; text-decoration-line: none;">Shahied Joseph</a></div> <span class="td-post-date td-post-date-no-dot" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-right: 8px; opacity: 0.5; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2023-11-02T02:30:00+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">November 2, 2023</time></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3I1NOdH">https://bit.ly/3I1NOdH</a></span></div></header></div></figcaption><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></figure>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-80843148754801096502023-11-03T08:02:00.003+02:002023-11-03T08:02:48.334+02:00Beachfront Hotel<p>2 November 2023 </p><p><br /></p><p>The CBCRA published a statement on its website, dated 30 October 2023. </p><p>That statement was withdrawn on 2 November 2023. </p><p>The CBCRA apologises to the current developer of the Camps Bay Hotel site, for any incorrect allegations made in that statement about that developer. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-31369045554010122962023-11-02T10:00:00.001+02:002024-02-20T10:02:56.481+02:00Fire on Camps Bay Drive<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIu3FwIEBp_kdDv41krGfMJRsySo6jrW999ykckvkzpLYrol3bTBEbxzWk3ATrIQDvn8eM2e-lluVQNNsQmUWJQPJU2UIK3b2QE7_l9WrZ9LnhEbthAbX9AS4UNVpuF9n-Cei3JtvpljKy24X2fY0LU8IoLy4LWzh81dD7PZ9C-H-EXN7eR8jw/s634/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%2010.00.45.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="634" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIu3FwIEBp_kdDv41krGfMJRsySo6jrW999ykckvkzpLYrol3bTBEbxzWk3ATrIQDvn8eM2e-lluVQNNsQmUWJQPJU2UIK3b2QE7_l9WrZ9LnhEbthAbX9AS4UNVpuF9n-Cei3JtvpljKy24X2fY0LU8IoLy4LWzh81dD7PZ9C-H-EXN7eR8jw/w400-h220/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%2010.00.45.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">A blaze on Camps Bay Drive on the slopes of Table Mountain was extinguished within 90 minutes of it being reported on Sunday, October 29, at 5.25pm.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Spokesperson for the City’s Fire and Rescue Service, Jermaine Carelse said the cause of the fire was unknown and there were no injuries.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“We have experienced an increase in vegetation fires. Predominantly the summer season is normally as from December up to end of March. The City’s Fire Service was assisted by SANParks and (NCC Environmental Services). By midnight the area was declared safe and crews inspected the areas every two to three hours to monitor for any flare-ups,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">SANParks spokesperson Lauren Howard-Clayton said invasive plants cannot be blamed for the fire.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“The fire burnt through a stand of mature Proteas so invasive plants did not play a roll in this fire. The rapid spread was as a result of the extreme, local wind conditions,” she said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">“There is a park wide invasive plant management programme managed by SANParks Biodiversity Special Projects. Clearing has been expanded to high altitude with the recent work undertaken on the slopes above Newlands as part of a Helihack.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Source Sans Pro, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3SNY7qI">https://bit.ly/3SNY7qI</a></span></p><div class="td-post-author-name" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><div class="td-author-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; opacity: 0.5;">By</div> <a href="https://www.atlanticsun.co.za/author/shahied-joseph" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ec6; text-decoration-line: none;">Shahied Joseph</a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="td-post-date td-post-date-no-dot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 8px; opacity: 0.5; padding-right: 11px; position: relative;"><time class="entry-date updated td-module-date" datetime="2023-10-31T12:44:08+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">October 31, 2023</time></span></p>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-70994984079490409032023-10-26T11:54:00.000+02:002023-10-30T11:54:48.069+02:00Die Burger: Bouwerk in Kampsbaai draai in November in die hof 25 Oktober 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Artikel 25 Oktober 2024 in Die Burger deur Jana Breytenbach. ©netwerk24</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Victoriaweg in Kampsbaai, Kaapstad, is sekerlik een van die gesogste plekke moontlik vir 'n hotelof restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dit is waarom die maatskappy Mas Sam vroeër vanjaar R230 miljoen betaal het vir 'n erf waarvoor reeds voorheen goedkeuring gegee is dat dit herontwikkel kon word.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kampsbaai se belastingsbetalersvereneging is egter nie hiermee geneë nie en is hof toe om die ontwikkeling te stuit....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lees verder aan die artikel hieronder:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 12px;">THE CAMPS BAY & CLIFTON RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION & ANOTHER / THE </i><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">CAMPS BAY BEACH HOTEL (PTY) LTD AND SIX OTHERS </i><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">HIGH COURT CASE NO: 8640/2023</i></p><div><i>Please click on the link below to download the PDF (137 pages, 998kb)</i></div><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNKaxtAyzaOQ3_2ZgikVyIN2ZnOvLhny/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNKaxtAyzaOQ3_2ZgikVyIN2ZnOvLhny/view?usp=sharing</a></p><p><br /></p><p>___________________________________________________________________________</p><p>Herewith the legal communication regarding the pending litigation challenge pertaining to the development of the proposed beachfront hotel:</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Published</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> on this blog 5 October 2023</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 12px;">Dear Sirs / Mesdames</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>THE CAMPS BAY & CLIFTON RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION & ANOTHER / THE</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>CAMPS BAY BEACH HOTEL (PTY) LTD AND SIX OTHERS</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>HIGH COURT CASE NO: 8640/2023</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>1. We refer to the above and the pending litigation, wherein the Camps Bay & Clifton</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Ratepayers’ Association challenges the legality of the City’s approval/s pertaining to</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the development of a new hotel and restaurant building on the property known as Erf</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>3349 Camps Bay. This letter is addressed to you, at your specific request, to express</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>an opinion about your prospects of success in the pending litigation.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>2. Firstly, we believe that you have a very good prospects of success. We are of the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>respectful view that you should succeed to set aside the approval of the aforesaid</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>development. We shall proceed to set out, in short version below, some of the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>primary reasons why we respectfully believe that you should succeed in Court.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>3. The formal approval of the development was done on the basis that there should be</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>at least 120 (one hundred and twenty off-street) off-street parking bays provided for</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the hotel and the restaurant. That approval went to the highest level and was also</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the decision of the Executive Mayor of Cape Town (which is the highest planning</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>appeal authority in the City). Thereafter, in what appears to have been a form of</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>improper “off the record” (secret) meeting between the developer’s architect and 3</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>(three) planning officials of the City, they decided that the 120 (one hundred and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>twenty) off-street parking bay requirement would not apply to this development. One</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>of these planning officials proceeded to recommend to the department dealing with</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>building plans that a building plan which only provided for 49 (forty-nine) parking</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 12px;">bays would suffice for the development. The building plan was approved on that</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>basis. Such approval was clearly unlawfully manipulated. To be lawfully approved, a</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>building plan must meet the requirements of the underlying planning approvals and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the law as it existed at the time that application was originally made for the planning</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>approval.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4. The municipal spatial development framework (“the MSDF”) of Cape Town</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>determines that a general height restriction of 10 (ten) metres applies to all buildings</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>across Camps Bay (since the imposition of that limitation). Item 190 of the City’s</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Development Management Scheme (i.e. the zoning scheme regulations) stipulates</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>that no facade of any building in Camps Bay may exceed a height of 10 (ten) metres</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>above any specific point on the ground. The approved development of the hotel and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>restaurant exceeds these limitations:</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.1 No height departure was granted to allow for a building which is higher than</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>10 (ten) meters.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.2 The facades of the new building will be approximately 15 (fifteen) metres at</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>several points along the perimeter thereof, once constructed.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.3 The Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 16 of 2013 prohibits a</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Municipal Planning Tribunal (“the MPT”) from approving any development</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>which is in conflict with the MSDF of a municipality. The MPT clearly breached</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>this statutory prohibition when it approved this development.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.4 When the MPT approved the development, it set a maximum heights above</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>mean sea level for the new building. The approved building plans show that</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>this height limitation is exceeded.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.5 A building plan cannot be approved which conflicts with existing law and/or the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>underlying planning approvals for the development, as granted by the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Municipal Planning Tribunal (“the MPT”) and the Executive Mayor (as the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>planning appeal authority).</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>5. Because the development is one for a hotel and restaurant, there are minimum</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>requirement applicable for loading bays to be provided. Such loading bays must be</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>of a minimum specific width and the headroom must also meet specific requirements</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>(to allow delivery vehicles which need larger bays to park). The approved building</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>plans show that only one loading bay is provided which does not meet either the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>width or the headroom requirements. It is incomprehensible how a building plan for a</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>development of this nature could be approved, without proper provision being made</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>for deliveries. Hotels and restaurants require large numbers of deliveries on a daily</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>basis.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>6. Also, there are minimum requirements which apply to a development of this nature</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>insofar as a refuse room is concerned. The amount of refuse produced by a hotel</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>and restaurant of this nature, will be enormous. The refuse room provided for this</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>development is far too small to accommodate the requirements of a hotel and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>restaurant of this scale. There is no provision made for the sorting of refuse; only 24</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>(twenty-four) wheely bins can be accommodated; and the placing of the refuse room,</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>which is on a different level to the street, does not provide easy access to the street,</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>from which refuse removal is supposed to take place by the City. The Solid Waste</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Department of the City did not support the approval of the building plans. Yet the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>department responsible for the approval of building plans was informed, incorrectly,</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>that there was no objection to the draft building plans. Had the correct facts been</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>known, the building plans would not have been approved.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>7. Victoria Road, which is the road onto which the hotel and restaurant will primarily</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>face, is a provincial main road. There is a 5 (five) meter building line set-back</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>applicable to that road. Only the Premier of the Western Cape can approve a setback</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>from the building line on Victoria Road. The Premier can legally do so, only</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>after plans are submitted to the Premier which show the purpose of the set-back and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the development. A relaxation of the building line was done by officials of the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>provincial Department of Transport, who had no authority to do so, but even that</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>approval (on which the developer relies) lapsed years ago. Notwithstanding, the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>building plan was approved with the support of the planning department of the City.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>The department responsible for the approval of building plans was not made aware</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>of this legal requirement.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>8. There are numerous other smaller technical requirements with which the building</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>plans and the planning approvals for the development did not comply. All these</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>issues are in the Court papers and will be argued when the matter does come before</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the High Court for judicial review.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>9. In short, based on the above, we are of the respectful view that you should succeed</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>before the High Court and that the development of the hotel and restaurant building</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>on Victoria Road, Camps Bay will not be allowed to proceed. The approval thereof</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>should be set aside and we are very positive about your prospects of success.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>10. Please advise if you have any further questions.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Yours faithfully</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>VAN RENSBURG & CO</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Per:</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>L J VAN RENSBURG</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>ATTORNEYS, NOTARIES, CONVEYANCERS, ADMINISTRATORS OF ESTATES</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>_____________________________________________________________________</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>PROKUREURS, NOTARISSE, AKTEVERVAARDIGERS, BOEDELBEREDDERAARS</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Tel: (021) 713-2100 PO Box 249</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Cell / Selfoon: 082-872-6340 BERGVLIET</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>7864</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>E-pos / E-mail: </i><span style="color: blue;"><i>Leon@vrlegal.co.za </i></span><i>127 Main Road</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>BERGVLIET, 7945</i></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Website: </i></span><i>www.legalassistance.co.za </i><span style="color: black;"><i>/</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>www.vrlegal.co.za </i></span><i>Datum / Date: 10/08/23</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>_______________________________________________________________</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Director/Direkteur: Leon Jansen van Rensburg B.Juris, LLB, LLM, LLD (PU vir CHO)</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Professional Assistants/Professionele Assistente: Vanessa Dean LLB (UNISA), Cornelia Jansen van Rensburg BA LLB (US)</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Consultant/Konsultant: Sheila Camerer BA LLB (UCT)</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">U verw / Your ref:</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ons verw / Our ref: LJVR/pk/VRC0510</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers’ Association</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">CAMPS BAY</span></i></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Via email: </i></span><i>campsbayratepayers@gmail.com</i></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">___________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Below are links pertaining to the proposed beachfront hotel in Victoria Road. Please click on the links to access the pdf files:</span></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tPN11r74R108mVFQ1RVhoQonl4zotvje/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Attorney Van Rensburg Letter to CBCRA re High Court prospects 2023-10-08.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19GnTghNeXBL0gQo526pDi03g12z5UxIy/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Founding Affidavit 2023-05-29.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dH9K8UKcMuOdqssfaMdOzYEdMPZ5Qj5R/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Founding Affidavit Supplementary1.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXLWROKTqGPZ8cVXOgyqDSaxNek1Lhtl/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Founding Affidavit Supplementary2.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M7wCRsZb-kL67Z3-RHRbosafHwa0ED_puvSKUfZIQcs/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Answering Affidavit Developer MAS SAM 7th Respondent.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sUzgMI-yGJGfLo5YO48UrDEtK52QfLox/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Answering Affidavit Mayor Hill-Lewis 3rd respondent and CCT Mr Marx Mupariwa 2nd respondent.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YIX0qD0RyEXd0pNl4xD0HiajdjhztOAd/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Answering Affidavit Minister Rural Development and Land Reform 6th Respondent.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nO_iHVUgD9HElbB76tREwZTmzWxsCL7a/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Replying Affidavit to 6th respondent Min Rural Dev and 7th respondent Developer MAS SAM.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNKaxtAyzaOQ3_2ZgikVyIN2ZnOvLhny/view?usp=sharing">APPLICANTS' HEADS OF ARGUMENT 8.11.23</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-41290784208636718022023-10-05T12:04:00.002+02:002023-11-16T12:19:35.494+02:00Beachfront Hotel - Help prevent the destruction & desecration of the Camps Bay beachfront<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Beachfront Hotel - Help prevent the destruction & desecration of the Camps Bay beachfront</h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8845613461241666240" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 818px;"><p>Herewith the APPLICANTS' HEADS OF ARGUMENT 8.11.23 on <i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">THE CAMPS BAY & CLIFTON RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION & ANOTHER / THE </i><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">CAMPS BAY BEACH HOTEL (PTY) LTD AND SIX OTHERS </i><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">HIGH COURT CASE NO: 8640/2023</i></p><div><i>Please click on the link below to download the PDF (137 pages, 998kb)</i></div></div><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNKaxtAyzaOQ3_2ZgikVyIN2ZnOvLhny/view?usp=sharing" style="background-color: white; color: #114499; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNKaxtAyzaOQ3_2ZgikVyIN2ZnOvLhny/view?usp=sharing</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14.85px;">___________________________________________________________________________</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Herewith the legal communication regarding the pending litigation challenge pertaining to the development of the proposed beachfront hotel:</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Published</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> on this blog 5 October 2023</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 12px;">Dear Sirs / Mesdames</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>THE CAMPS BAY & CLIFTON RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION & ANOTHER / THE</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>CAMPS BAY BEACH HOTEL (PTY) LTD AND SIX OTHERS</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>HIGH COURT CASE NO: 8640/2023</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>1. We refer to the above and the pending litigation, wherein the Camps Bay & Clifton</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Ratepayers’ Association challenges the legality of the City’s approval/s pertaining to</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the development of a new hotel and restaurant building on the property known as Erf</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>3349 Camps Bay. This letter is addressed to you, at your specific request, to express</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>an opinion about your prospects of success in the pending litigation.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>2. Firstly, we believe that you have a very good prospects of success. We are of the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>respectful view that you should succeed to set aside the approval of the aforesaid</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>development. We shall proceed to set out, in short version below, some of the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>primary reasons why we respectfully believe that you should succeed in Court.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>3. The formal approval of the development was done on the basis that there should be</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>at least 120 (one hundred and twenty off-street) off-street parking bays provided for</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the hotel and the restaurant. That approval went to the highest level and was also</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the decision of the Executive Mayor of Cape Town (which is the highest planning</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>appeal authority in the City). Thereafter, in what appears to have been a form of</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>improper “off the record” (secret) meeting between the developer’s architect and 3</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>(three) planning officials of the City, they decided that the 120 (one hundred and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>twenty) off-street parking bay requirement would not apply to this development. One</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>of these planning officials proceeded to recommend to the department dealing with</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>building plans that a building plan which only provided for 49 (forty-nine) parking</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 12px;">bays would suffice for the development. The building plan was approved on that</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>basis. Such approval was clearly unlawfully manipulated. To be lawfully approved, a</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>building plan must meet the requirements of the underlying planning approvals and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the law as it existed at the time that application was originally made for the planning</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>approval.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4. The municipal spatial development framework (“the MSDF”) of Cape Town</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>determines that a general height restriction of 10 (ten) metres applies to all buildings</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>across Camps Bay (since the imposition of that limitation). Item 190 of the City’s</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Development Management Scheme (i.e. the zoning scheme regulations) stipulates</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>that no facade of any building in Camps Bay may exceed a height of 10 (ten) metres</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>above any specific point on the ground. The approved development of the hotel and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>restaurant exceeds these limitations:</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.1 No height departure was granted to allow for a building which is higher than</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>10 (ten) meters.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.2 The facades of the new building will be approximately 15 (fifteen) metres at</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>several points along the perimeter thereof, once constructed.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.3 The Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 16 of 2013 prohibits a</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Municipal Planning Tribunal (“the MPT”) from approving any development</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>which is in conflict with the MSDF of a municipality. The MPT clearly breached</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>this statutory prohibition when it approved this development.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.4 When the MPT approved the development, it set a maximum heights above</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>mean sea level for the new building. The approved building plans show that</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>this height limitation is exceeded.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>4.5 A building plan cannot be approved which conflicts with existing law and/or the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>underlying planning approvals for the development, as granted by the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Municipal Planning Tribunal (“the MPT”) and the Executive Mayor (as the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>planning appeal authority).</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>5. Because the development is one for a hotel and restaurant, there are minimum</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>requirement applicable for loading bays to be provided. Such loading bays must be</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>of a minimum specific width and the headroom must also meet specific requirements</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>(to allow delivery vehicles which need larger bays to park). The approved building</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>plans show that only one loading bay is provided which does not meet either the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>width or the headroom requirements. It is incomprehensible how a building plan for a</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>development of this nature could be approved, without proper provision being made</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>for deliveries. Hotels and restaurants require large numbers of deliveries on a daily</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>basis.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>6. Also, there are minimum requirements which apply to a development of this nature</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>insofar as a refuse room is concerned. The amount of refuse produced by a hotel</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>and restaurant of this nature, will be enormous. The refuse room provided for this</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>development is far too small to accommodate the requirements of a hotel and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>restaurant of this scale. There is no provision made for the sorting of refuse; only 24</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>(twenty-four) wheely bins can be accommodated; and the placing of the refuse room,</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>which is on a different level to the street, does not provide easy access to the street,</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>from which refuse removal is supposed to take place by the City. The Solid Waste</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Department of the City did not support the approval of the building plans. Yet the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>department responsible for the approval of building plans was informed, incorrectly,</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>that there was no objection to the draft building plans. Had the correct facts been</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>known, the building plans would not have been approved.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>7. Victoria Road, which is the road onto which the hotel and restaurant will primarily</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>face, is a provincial main road. There is a 5 (five) meter building line set-back</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>applicable to that road. Only the Premier of the Western Cape can approve a setback</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>from the building line on Victoria Road. The Premier can legally do so, only</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>after plans are submitted to the Premier which show the purpose of the set-back and</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the development. A relaxation of the building line was done by officials of the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>provincial Department of Transport, who had no authority to do so, but even that</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>approval (on which the developer relies) lapsed years ago. Notwithstanding, the</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>building plan was approved with the support of the planning department of the City.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>The department responsible for the approval of building plans was not made aware</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>of this legal requirement.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>8. There are numerous other smaller technical requirements with which the building</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>plans and the planning approvals for the development did not comply. All these</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>issues are in the Court papers and will be argued when the matter does come before</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>the High Court for judicial review.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>9. In short, based on the above, we are of the respectful view that you should succeed</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>before the High Court and that the development of the hotel and restaurant building</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>on Victoria Road, Camps Bay will not be allowed to proceed. The approval thereof</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>should be set aside and we are very positive about your prospects of success.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>10. Please advise if you have any further questions.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Yours faithfully</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>VAN RENSBURG & CO</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Per:</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>L J VAN RENSBURG</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>ATTORNEYS, NOTARIES, CONVEYANCERS, ADMINISTRATORS OF ESTATES</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>_____________________________________________________________________</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>PROKUREURS, NOTARISSE, AKTEVERVAARDIGERS, BOEDELBEREDDERAARS</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Tel: (021) 713-2100 PO Box 249</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Cell / Selfoon: 082-872-6340 BERGVLIET</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>7864</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>E-pos / E-mail: </i><span style="color: blue;"><i>Leon@vrlegal.co.za </i></span><i>127 Main Road</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>BERGVLIET, 7945</i></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Website: </i></span><i>www.legalassistance.co.za </i><span style="color: black;"><i>/</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>www.vrlegal.co.za </i></span><i>Datum / Date: 10/08/23</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>_______________________________________________________________</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Director/Direkteur: Leon Jansen van Rensburg B.Juris, LLB, LLM, LLD (PU vir CHO)</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Professional Assistants/Professionele Assistente: Vanessa Dean LLB (UNISA), Cornelia Jansen van Rensburg BA LLB (US)</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Consultant/Konsultant: Sheila Camerer BA LLB (UCT)</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">U verw / Your ref:</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ons verw / Our ref: LJVR/pk/VRC0510</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers’ Association</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">CAMPS BAY</span></i></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Via email: </i></span><i>campsbayratepayers@gmail.com</i></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Below are links pertaining to the proposed beachfront hotel in Victoria Road. Please click on the links to access the pdf files:</span></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tPN11r74R108mVFQ1RVhoQonl4zotvje/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Attorney Van Rensburg Letter to CBCRA re High Court prospects 2023-10-08.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19GnTghNeXBL0gQo526pDi03g12z5UxIy/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Founding Affidavit 2023-05-29.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dH9K8UKcMuOdqssfaMdOzYEdMPZ5Qj5R/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Founding Affidavit Supplementary1.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXLWROKTqGPZ8cVXOgyqDSaxNek1Lhtl/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Founding Affidavit Supplementary2.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M7wCRsZb-kL67Z3-RHRbosafHwa0ED_puvSKUfZIQcs/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Answering Affidavit Developer MAS SAM 7th Respondent.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sUzgMI-yGJGfLo5YO48UrDEtK52QfLox/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Answering Affidavit Mayor Hill-Lewis 3rd respondent and CCT Mr Marx Mupariwa 2nd respondent.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YIX0qD0RyEXd0pNl4xD0HiajdjhztOAd/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Answering Affidavit Minister Rural Development and Land Reform 6th Respondent.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nO_iHVUgD9HElbB76tREwZTmzWxsCL7a/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">BFH- Replying Affidavit to 6th respondent Min Rural Dev and 7th respondent Developer MAS SAM.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNKaxtAyzaOQ3_2ZgikVyIN2ZnOvLhny/view?usp=sharing" style="background-color: white; color: #114499; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;">APPLICANTS' HEADS OF ARGUMENT 8.11.23</a></p><p>____________________________________________________________________</p><p> HELP PREVENT THE DESTRUCTION & DESECRATION OF THE CAMPS BAY BEACHFRONT</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxGXhEUx4ZwCWkRA61xCAORXN1wqAz4SCIhHfVjXFQ2sVjBHUc9r7F8PMRquGH5nciMkCEN4mo8sYUVvDEF-5D57QVR5Lyt5dQPRm2fRGe8UV-syzEB4Vu2tnz3g6xU7x0A0KOrMRcV2dnVFuIY5xtU1_IxLHAUvh-lOOqqeGhAtslzjX1Q/s2104/Screenshot%202023-02-21%20at%2019.18.16.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="2104" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxGXhEUx4ZwCWkRA61xCAORXN1wqAz4SCIhHfVjXFQ2sVjBHUc9r7F8PMRquGH5nciMkCEN4mo8sYUVvDEF-5D57QVR5Lyt5dQPRm2fRGe8UV-syzEB4Vu2tnz3g6xU7x0A0KOrMRcV2dnVFuIY5xtU1_IxLHAUvh-lOOqqeGhAtslzjX1Q/w640-h210/Screenshot%202023-02-21%20at%2019.18.16.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The proposed new 101-room hotel on the beachfront has been approved by the City with 5 floors instead of the permitted 3 and a height of almost 15m instead of the permitted 10m! This is a disgrace on the part of the City, which, sadly, routinely approves such inappropriate development.</p><p>It also fills the entire site, with no side spaces on the boundaries, and is critically short of parking bays.</p><p>The development has no environmental permission and there are many other contraventions which have been established by the Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers Association (CBCRA) and its legal team. </p><p>As happened with the development at 22 Sedgemoor Rd, the developer and City tell us that the planning approval is all in order!</p><p>In the Sedgemoor matter, the High Court disagreed and interdicted any further work on the site in December 2021 (14 months ago) and that remains the current status – and will continue so until the developer is prepared to negotiate a solution that is acceptable to the neighbours and the community.</p><p>The CBCRA has a proven track record of stopping inappropriate development in Camps Bay for the benefit of all current and future owners of property and residents.</p><p>The CBCRA has, over the past few years, repeatedly opposed and appealed the decision-making of the City in this beachfront hotel matter – forcing it into many questionable planning decisions in order to favour the development. The City is notorious for its blind “development at any cost” stance.</p><p>The community gave generously toward this fight - and enabled the CBCRA to get to this juncture where every move by the City or developer is recorded and can be placed before a High Court judge for a review of those objectionable decisions. The CBCRA will soon make that application to the High Court to review and set aside the City’s planning decision to approve this monstrous blight on the built environment of one of the most beautiful areas in the world.</p><p>We need to stand up against the abuse of power by the City which feeds the greed of developers!</p><p>The community is not anti-development but insists that it must be sensitive and sustainable and within the development rules for the area – everything which this development is not!</p><p>From the above perspective, it is clear that this insensitive over-bulked monstrosity will even block the view of the mountain from the beach! Note how it towers over the existing Tigers Milk building from the side and the back.</p><p>We call on the community to stand together and back the CBCRA and local residents opposing the wholesale destruction of one of the most beautiful and visited beachfronts in the world – both financially and by joining the movement to ensure sensitive and appropriate development along the beachfront.</p><p>Please contact campsbayratepayers@gmail.com to offer your assistance and be included in our mailing address. Together, we can bring some sense back to the development of the beachfront and Camps Bay.</p><p>The CBCRA banking details are:</p><p>Bank First National Bank<br />Branch Code 201709<br />Account No 62550213400<br />Reference YOUR NAME and Beachfront Hotel</p><p>CBCRA<br />(Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers Association)<br />Tel: 083 653 6363<br />E-mail: campsbayratepayers@gmail.com<br />Blog: http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnf3rdZvx-CDX832bcfaLwO37FKDPvlDBvu9Pq_Rq0r7VpxDnumPVkrYvxnJUq3t56eYYCMzDOewoJhRPEIrtyj7GuCo7tnZZcNDDAQvEsh3ys1g4u05AfkLLl-uqVckIsPxk4vvGiMNQ9zW2vSUPmBAAdqJwqod6TD0o7z4pPP5uaF4emfg/s2022/Screenshot%202023-02-21%20at%2019.19.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2022" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnf3rdZvx-CDX832bcfaLwO37FKDPvlDBvu9Pq_Rq0r7VpxDnumPVkrYvxnJUq3t56eYYCMzDOewoJhRPEIrtyj7GuCo7tnZZcNDDAQvEsh3ys1g4u05AfkLLl-uqVckIsPxk4vvGiMNQ9zW2vSUPmBAAdqJwqod6TD0o7z4pPP5uaF4emfg/w640-h432/Screenshot%202023-02-21%20at%2019.19.35.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h4>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-13065753273887446482023-09-22T18:24:00.000+02:002023-10-05T18:27:24.660+02:00Solar investments pay off for Camps Bay High School<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Camps Bay High School has implemented a solar energy system that not only ensures uninterrupted operation during load shedding periods but also generates surplus electricity for the broader community.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eRVanevy7K_TxDLfheTeydV1p-e5dS2bXRwHuENZZke89r-ido6skP9r6DK4xXxi-zJ3zL8YsWFlUjbS5PRy8_6qaCiTfIesJwgUZQMza-Zeve0d-Z9dUVpR2nXPwdlAjjuO20IMPtBe3InBG0RnCIObpuos_mqj_VqZqyu6JnRFa9GKeP6ziQ/s691/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.25.17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="691" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eRVanevy7K_TxDLfheTeydV1p-e5dS2bXRwHuENZZke89r-ido6skP9r6DK4xXxi-zJ3zL8YsWFlUjbS5PRy8_6qaCiTfIesJwgUZQMza-Zeve0d-Z9dUVpR2nXPwdlAjjuO20IMPtBe3InBG0RnCIObpuos_mqj_VqZqyu6JnRFa9GKeP6ziQ/w400-h205/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.25.17.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">In 2020, Camps Bay High School took its first step towards energy resilience by installing 80 solar panels, a forward-thinking move to curtail electricity costs and uphold our commitment to responsible energy consumption. However, the increasing frequency and impact of load shedding prompted the School Governing Body to take decisive further action,” explains school principal Louis Mostert.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">This year, with a strategic allocation of R1.8m from its financial reserves, the school governing body (SGB) spearheaded the installation of a further 120 advanced solar panels, generating 100kW of electricity. The upgrade includes the integration of two 50kW inverters and two 40kWh batteries, securing the school's operation during extended load shedding periods.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">The inverter, batteries, and solar panels in the new system come with guarantees of five, 10, and 25 years respectively, providing a secure and enduring power solution.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"With the sun now serving as our steadfast power source, we wave goodbye to the unsettling presence of load shedding. Camps Bay High School is now one of only a handful of schools in South Africa who can say that learning and school activities can carry on uninterrupted during load shedding," said Mostert.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"Our ability to ensure uninterrupted learning for our students, irrespective of external energy challenges, reaffirms our commitment to their education and well-being. We have not only empowered our school but our community as well."</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Rigorous process</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Following a rigorous tender process, NHD Solar was awarded the contract for providing the upgrading of the solar power system. The company is headed up by a school parent, Dean Tait, with installation services handled by Cinch Energy, and the panels themselves supplied by another school parent, Simon Campbell-Young and his company, CydTechsolar.com.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"The infrastructure empowers Camps Bay High School to generate an average of 450kWh of electricity daily, resulting in a noteworthy monthly saving of R49,140 under the current Eskom tariff structure. Through harnessing this surplus power, the school actively contributes to the electricity grid, generating revenue from excess energy and illuminating neighbouring residences and businesses," Tait explained.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"Our system is seamlessly integrated with a user-friendly app, providing real-time insights into energy production, consumption, and storage. This app issues alerts and notifications for issue resolution and enables the school to optimise energy usage for maximum savings," he continues.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"It offers a comprehensive view of the power dynamics, including solar generation, grid utilisation, and total energy consumption. Additionally, it provides valuable insights into available stored power reserves during Eskom downtimes."</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">A catalyst for positive change</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"This transformative action aligns with the school’s vision of being a catalyst for positive change beyond its campus. Our comprehensive solar initiative is an investment that transcends immediate financial benefits. By generating surplus electricity that can be shared with our community, we are fostering resilience and collaboration," said Brian Williams, SGB business development manager and project leader.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">"Through this commitment, we are not only energising our classrooms but also exemplifying our dedication to environmental responsibility. Furthermore, with the assurance of uninterrupted power, we ensure that learning never succumbs to the disruptions of load shedding, fortifying the education journey for our students and embodying the spirit of progress for all our community."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">This system not only marks an end to Camps Bay High School's vulnerability to load shedding, but also underscores its role as a dynamic force for progress. Beyond financial savings, the school's solar venture has unlocked a new era of energy autonomy, echoing the school's commitment to innovation, sustainability, and community enrichment.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">- Article courtesy of BizCommunity</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/704/242096.html</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-87922873106429408892023-09-22T18:18:00.020+02:002023-10-05T18:22:19.029+02:00Cape Town ordered to hold public hearings<p>Cape Town ordered to hold public hearings on sewage being pumped into the sea Environment minister criticises City’s previous lack of engagement</p><p>By Steve Kretzmann</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5RrXTD8gQ7SLAnRc158RWFkyBs8Q3UdRdm5yKIroENCUuq42ps8rqdvLrTui3hNZ8wnzHyT1iL9rv7-RsvWyBfydPf9sFjKXYOODm7VHalekRJJrU7yMrdil09O5Qg7N2OV1hN_ep3peQKttsYPf6Kxh-et7qyxWRy05tKLEE5JumHUhfHL__Q/s738/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.19.07.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="738" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5RrXTD8gQ7SLAnRc158RWFkyBs8Q3UdRdm5yKIroENCUuq42ps8rqdvLrTui3hNZ8wnzHyT1iL9rv7-RsvWyBfydPf9sFjKXYOODm7VHalekRJJrU7yMrdil09O5Qg7N2OV1hN_ep3peQKttsYPf6Kxh-et7qyxWRy05tKLEE5JumHUhfHL__Q/w400-h301/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.19.07.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: Inter, san-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Green Point marine outfall is one of three in Cape Town through which millions of litres of sewage are pumped out to sea daily. The City has been ordered to embark on a public participation process over the permits required for the operation of these outfalls. Archive photo: Steve Kretzmann</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: Inter, san-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 14px;">Early this year, a number of organisations appealed to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment over the granting of discharge permits to the City of Cape Town for three outlets that pump sewage into the sea.</li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 14px;">In her appeal decision, Minister Barbara Creecy ordered the City to engage in public hearings and criticised the City for its lack of engagement over the permit process.</li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 14px;">The City has now started public hearings at a “pre-briefing” on Wednesday.</li></ul>Lack of engagement<br />Loss of trust<br />Grounds for appeal<p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">After it was ordered to do so by the environment minister, the City of Cape Town has now started public hearings on three marine outfalls it operates. These pump about 28 million litres of sewage out to sea every day, according to reports commissioned by the City. The only treatment this sewage receives is to be macerated and pumped through a 3mm grid to remove grit and solids. It is then released into the ocean approximately 1.5km from shore in Green Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Mayco member for water and sanitation Zahid Badroodien announced the start of a 60-day public hearing period at a pre-briefing held at Camps Bay High school on Wednesday evening. This comes after the City failed to notify the public it had been granted the permits in 2019 for Hout Bay, in December 2022 for Green Point, and in January for Camps Bay. In total, the three permits allow for a maximum 56-million litres of sewage to be pumped out to sea every day.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">The City also applied for a permit to discharge brine at the Green Point outfall in line with the possible development of a desalination plant.<img alt="" class="leave" height="1" id="gu_counter" src="https://republish.groundup.org.za/counter/hit/13307/city-of-cape-town-ordered-to-hold-public-hearings-on-sewage-being-pumped-to-sea" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin-top: 14px; vertical-align: middle; visibility: hidden; width: 1px;" width="1" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">The City had applied for the <a href="https://groundup.org.za/article/city-fails-publish-water-quality-tests-two-years/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0250bb; text-decoration: none;">discharge permits</a> in 2014, but it took years for the first of the three permits to be issued by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), due to the legislation on outfall permits being shifted from the National Water Act under the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to the Integrated Coastal Management Act under the DFFE.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">In the meantime, the outfalls had been operating under a general authorisation issued by the DWS, according to previous correspondence with the City.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Following appeals to the granting of the permits submitted by a number of organisations in January and February, DFFE minister Barbara Creecy, in her appeal decision of 10 June, stated the City failed to notify interested parties that the permits had been granted or to make a public announcement.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">This impinged on the public’s right to appeal. Appeals are supposed to be lodged within 30 days of the appellant being notified of the decision, or within 60 days of the decision being announced if the appellant is not notified of the decision.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Creecy stated the public only became aware of the issuing of the permits after the National Sea Rescue Institute (one of the appellants) ask the City in January if the outfall permits had been issued.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">In deciding whether to consider the appeals, Creecy noted it was her view “that the CoCT [City of Cape Town] ought to have announced the decision once it was issued so that interested persons were advised of their right to appeal”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Another factor in deciding to consider the appeals was that the discharge of sewage through the outfalls was “historic” and “continuous in nature”, thus “no prejudice (or limited prejudice) will be suffered by the CoCT”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">The outfalls have been in operation for decades under various renewable licensing conditions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">A number of the 20 people attending the pre-briefing on Wednesday were sceptical of the City’s public participation process.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Badroodien said the City was going beyond the minimum requirements and extending the public hearings to include five coastal sewage treatment plants that released treated effluent into the ocean. These were Mitchells Plain, Llandudno, Oudekraal, Simon’s Town, and Miller’s Point.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Former Camps Bay and Clifton Ratepayers’ Association management committee member and<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BayOfSewage" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0250bb; text-decoration: none;"> Bay of Sewage</a> member Byron Herbert said this appeared to be a way to cloud the issue since the marine outfalls, unlike the sewage plants, did not treat the sewage before it was pumped into the ocean.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Badroodien denied any ill intent.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Marine conservation photographer Jean Tresfon, whose<a href="https://waterstories.co.za/green-point/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0250bb; text-decoration: none;"> aerial photographs</a> of plumes of sewage released from the outfalls have created public outcry, told Badroodien trust had been lost by the previous water and sanitation mayco member; Badroodien and his team would have to work hard to regain it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Tresfon said he was part of the public participation process in 2015, but neither he nor anyone he knew who was involved were notified when the permits were granted.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">He said there had been almost 3,000 objections at the time “but no one got a single reply”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">It also appeared Badroodien and director of water and sanitation bulk services, Mike Killick, had not properly read Creecy’s appeal decision. Neither had knowledge of brine discharge also being part of the Green Point outfall permit application, nor that Creecy had stipulated one of the public participation meetings had to take place in Camps Bay, which was not on the list of venues presented.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Badroodien and Killick were, however, respectful of the criticism.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Badroodien said a study on the<a href="https://groundup.org.za/article/plans-to-stop-raw-sewage-being-pumped-into-the-sea-off-cape-town/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0250bb; text-decoration: none;"> feasibility of treating the sewage</a> before pumping it to sea, or pumping it to other land-based treatment works, would be published toward the end of the year.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Among the grounds for appealling the granting of the discharge permits were that the sewage was being pumped into a marine protected area; it contravened the right to a healthy environment as provided for the Bill of Rights; there was no evidence of a proper public participation process or risk assessment; and the discharge was not in the interests of the whole community.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Creecy noted the City did advertise its applications for the permits and invited comment between 1 June and 10 July 2015 – four years before the Hout Bay permit was issued and seven-and-a-half years before the permits for Camps Bay and Green Point were issued.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">She said the DFFE then asked for further information, which was provided in the form of various reports. However, these were not made available for public comment because the public participation process had closed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Additionally, she stated it was unclear where and when the City’s notices inviting public comment had been placed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">This led her to the view “that any public participation process that has been conducted is inadequate, outdated and should be redone to give effect to the right to just administrative action”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">She said the granting of the permits “have potentially far-reaching consequences because the discharge of sewage into the ocean can have significant impacts on the environment and public health”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">“It is therefore essential that the public have an opportunity to provide input and feedback on these decisions.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">Creecy then instructed the City to hold a fresh public participation process, which included at least three public meetings in Green Point, Camps Bay, and Hout Bay. This needed to happen at least 30 days after notices of the permit applications, and where details of the relevant information could be found, were posted in newspapers and at public buildings.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px; text-align: left;">On Wednesday, Badroodien said residents could comment or object to the marine outfalls through the City’s<a href="https://www.capetown.gov.za/City-Connect/have-your-say/issues-open-for-public-comment?L1=Issues%20open%20for%20public%20comment" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0250bb; text-decoration: none;"> have your say platform</a>. He said notices of the public hearings were also being placed in newspapers and at public buildings<span style="font-size: 1.9rem;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; font-size: 1.9rem; margin: 14px 0px 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eYIr3qSQZQyAqvWWqscOfcW06BCeMjXUP2BDwMgc5StG_1rqjKOCezP7LSdwENhW6bbUxay_GqBarRtrAw242Bb4_UUbcUxc3Iodx0jPumk22i3YOsU9_0-LKLDDhywvk-2-zAbuiIOFqICIJZNcTrQUn0rAlMde0sDc7rOFLd2DXlneLO1-hQ/s741/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.20.47.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="741" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eYIr3qSQZQyAqvWWqscOfcW06BCeMjXUP2BDwMgc5StG_1rqjKOCezP7LSdwENhW6bbUxay_GqBarRtrAw242Bb4_UUbcUxc3Iodx0jPumk22i3YOsU9_0-LKLDDhywvk-2-zAbuiIOFqICIJZNcTrQUn0rAlMde0sDc7rOFLd2DXlneLO1-hQ/w400-h265/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.20.47.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; font-size: 1.9rem; margin: 14px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #efefef; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 14px;">The beauty of Camps Bay is world-renowned, but it is also the site of one of three marine outfalls through which the City of Cape Town pumps millions of litres of sewage out to sea every day. Archive photo: Steve Kretzmann</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Inter, san-serif;"><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-size: 14px;">- Article courtesy of </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Grown-up.org</span></span></p><p>https://www.groundup.org.za/article/city-of-cape-town-ordered-to-hold-public-hearings-on-sewage-being-pumped-to-sea/</p><p><br /></p><p><span class="article__correction__type" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; font-size: 18.200000762939453px; font-style: italic; text-transform: uppercase;">CORRECTION ON 2023-09-21 15:27</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; font-size: 18.200000762939453px; font-style: italic;"></span><span class="article__correction_text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Inter, san-serif; font-size: 18.200000762939453px; font-style: italic;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, san-serif; margin: 14px 0px 0px;">We initially stated nine million litres of sewage is pumped out to sea through the three outfalls per day. The correct figure, according to reports commissioned by the City, is 28 million litres per day.</p>Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-13923650836455152242023-09-20T18:31:00.001+02:002023-10-05T18:34:34.972+02:00Alan Marsh: 'He will be missed': Camps Bay mourns dedicated community leader<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7eMhFkRM7JmDi-QXFKI-PLwrbebEcgmyfXKepVIZsgM0A5Vsfp-KGb4Lu4iYB9x109bFDZg8tlH69DlqgHhgRWmiZD75W4o9ySisyH3cKw8N-Dj-UAHwQINaTM6NCw3h4ROjikPf__Ds89xxBt8znmNawgQvDxZDbStU7Z9aoP9GGnVbCnqgWw/s629/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.32.15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="629" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7eMhFkRM7JmDi-QXFKI-PLwrbebEcgmyfXKepVIZsgM0A5Vsfp-KGb4Lu4iYB9x109bFDZg8tlH69DlqgHhgRWmiZD75W4o9ySisyH3cKw8N-Dj-UAHwQINaTM6NCw3h4ROjikPf__Ds89xxBt8znmNawgQvDxZDbStU7Z9aoP9GGnVbCnqgWw/w400-h353/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.32.15.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #212121; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Alan Marsh died on Wednesday 13 September at age 78.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A dedicated leader. This is how Camps Bay community leader Alan Marsh will be remembered. Marsh died on Wednesday 13 September following a short illness. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The 78-year-old served as the chair of the Camps Bay and Clifton Community Policing Forum and co-founded and directed Ignisive – Ignite Inclusive Change Community-based organisation. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Theresa Masaglia, a friend and co-founder of the organisation, said Marsh’s death “left a gaping hole in the community and our hearts”. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Few may know just how much he did for others, as he never spoke of it but instead quietly just got on with things. Even less will know how, regardless of his own struggles, he pushed through and set aside his own challenges to always put the needs of the community first.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Masaglia said his “humble wisdom” won the respect of many. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“He led by example and always remained so professional. His integrity, calm and discreet approach in the most delicate situations made him the perfect person at the helm, especially when chaos erupted.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">She said he treated everyone with the same respect, and everyone had the highest respect for him.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Masaglia adds that he was a teacher, a tour guide, a mentor and a legend to everyone.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“To do what he has done at his age blows my mind. The level of energy he put into everything. It was so great to work with him. As co-founder and director of Ignisive we valued his leadership in co-creating the shared vision of authentic collaboration, transformation and social impact, through a fully integrated team-centric model, inclusive of all community stakeholders including the man on the street.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">She explains that his passing is felt beyond the boundaries of Camps Bay, </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“He eagerly joined the social development interventions in communities like Kalksteenfontein, to support ongoing efforts to keep children in school and off streets.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“The greatest blessing to me was crossing paths with him a few years ago. His legacy will live through every bit of work we will continue to do in his honour. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Thanks for being the spark that set out to just love, learn, and bring light to everyone who had the privilege of engaging with you.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Nicola Jowell, Ward 54 councillor, extended her condolences to his family, friends and the Camps Bay community. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“So many people will know Alan for his dedication to the community through the CPF, which he has been the chairperson of for the last few years. He was also a founding member of Ignisive NGO who have done so much to help the homeless community and children at risk in Kalksteenfontein and more.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Jowell says his passing leaves a massive gap in the community. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Alan played a massive role in the Camps Bay community, that cannot be underestimated or replaced. He will be missed by so many. Wishing his wife Edith and daughter Ali a long life, and much strength in this time of sadness.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Sgt Glynnis Bester, crime information management analysis centre commander at Camps Bay Police Station, said Marsh was “part of the furniture” of Camps Bay police.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“He had such a big heart for our Camps Bay police family. He came with his problems from the community straight to my office and used the famous phrase ‘Sgt Bester, we need to talk’, then you know Alan wants to talk about crime, threats and street people.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Bester says he will be missed. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“He always had something good to say. He was always willing and able with my projects, was on par with everything. He was an amazing human being. I’ve lost someone dear to me, and my heart is heavy. He used to sit for hours on end in my office just talking and I’m going miss him so much.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Marsh leaves behind his wife Edith and daughter Alley.</p>Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-71921748876849953172023-09-14T18:13:00.001+02:002023-10-05T18:17:26.947+02:00Camps Bay Police Station Commander ready to pass the baton as he takes early retirement<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3DRCPM9FaR-fnh3-VqRtppzAR2HLOra_ygO79nKPZmq7pD1A4pDld-cktuBpyAFKraziMBwJ7NhEuHn0BhSkkW1clKrLszRjOKN2JAFwGgRkYrjsnWt8SlvpNNF08oAOwWzQz8rd9P2m_9HJXF64YQSxetnve4K8EtVPpSgL3tDPN-2-YZQoRVQ/s625/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.14.38.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="625" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3DRCPM9FaR-fnh3-VqRtppzAR2HLOra_ygO79nKPZmq7pD1A4pDld-cktuBpyAFKraziMBwJ7NhEuHn0BhSkkW1clKrLszRjOKN2JAFwGgRkYrjsnWt8SlvpNNF08oAOwWzQz8rd9P2m_9HJXF64YQSxetnve4K8EtVPpSgL3tDPN-2-YZQoRVQ/w400-h350/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.14.38.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Following a 37-year stint in the South African Police Service Capt Keith Chandler will exchange his police uniform for civilian attire later this month when he retires early.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The 55-year-old Camps Bay Police Station Commander will vacate his post on Thursday 28 September. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The officer explained he joined the police service in 1986, after completing his training at the Police Training College. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Over the past 30 years, he has worked as a member of the Presidential Unit, the Maitland Flying Squad, a communications officer and a reservist coordinator.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Chandler said he started at Camps Bay in November 2016. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">He said his interest in policing was piqued at a young age. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“I come from a military background. My father was in the navy. I was intrigued by the military order and militaristic rule and uniform.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">He said policing was his passion.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“I just love and enjoy policing. My wife is also in the police force, so she understands my situation and we often assist each other.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Chandler said with less than 20 days left in office he was still working on three cases, and added after 30 years he was still “intrigued by each case”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">He said although the job comes with its challenges, each day is unique. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Every day is different. You have your standard meetings, but there is always something different. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“I work with some loyal staff and residents who are driven. It’s not only about locking people up, but also about having a passion for helping one’s fellow human being.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Chandler said despite the negative connotations attached to the police service there are still many “good cops” serving the country diligently. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“In every organisation there are bad apples but there are also good ones. Always see the good in people. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“We have some young new police officers that are energetic and want to go the extra mile and we encourage people to work with the police. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“We try to make Camps Bay and Cape Town a better place to live for our families and future generations.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Theresa Masaglia, a member of the Camps Bay Policing Forum, believes Chandler made a huge impact in the area.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;">“He has always been supportive of all the initiatives and the things that we do. He has also allowed his team to work practically with us in terms of our social impact projects and they have been involved in helping to look at ways that we can get people off the street. It is nice to have a leader who is willing to engage. What I valued was being able to learn from him.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;">The officer explained that as much as he loved his job he had been planning for his retirement for at least five years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">He said he will now have more time to focus on his hobbies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“I am very much into the antique trade. So now I can try that out as a job. I will also have more time to spend with my family.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Chandler thanked the residents of Camps Bay and his colleagues for their support over the past few years. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“You have to embrace change. Help us make Camps Bay, which is already the number one destination for tourists, safer, let’s maintain a good crime-free environment. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“The thing I always notice is the good in people. We all have a bad side but look for the good. And we try and help people in any way we can.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Give the new station commander just as much support as they gave me. We don’t consider ourselves colleagues but family. We spend more time here than at home. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Just keep the family going. I will be down the road and will always make a turn here.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Chandler said his motto has always been to lead with honour and integrity. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">“I always say do unto others as you want them to do to you. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am not a strict commander but do your job and try and be the best person you can be.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Article by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Kaylynne Bantom</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">- courtesy News24</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">https://www.news24.com/news24/community-newspaper/peoples-post/camps-bay-police-station-commander-ready-to-pass-the-baton-as-he-takes-early-retirement-20230912</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: proximanova-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p>Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-49979832408921089862023-07-12T18:27:00.001+02:002023-10-05T18:31:29.124+02:00Camps Bay Beach named amongst most beautiful beaches in the world<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">The stunning and iconic Camps Bay Beach in Cape Town was recently named amongst the most beautiful beaches in the world. Here’s more…</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7OdzyP1UUNbTC2wjZryiXNPmE3keHp_R46joXW2gTNokf-yc7pt1YnUUyH8Uv8YjK4EBPk_Phk4ov8Cm_vOwIJ2ApOFRZ2y_q3Hf22Z2hi0FgiDbGUw6pgWcGX-gZP1GIEpiSYLa03Za4t-kHf-c4yQRpIi0op0qMc65mvBebXZEdSEUff3C9A/s798/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.28.33.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="798" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7OdzyP1UUNbTC2wjZryiXNPmE3keHp_R46joXW2gTNokf-yc7pt1YnUUyH8Uv8YjK4EBPk_Phk4ov8Cm_vOwIJ2ApOFRZ2y_q3Hf22Z2hi0FgiDbGUw6pgWcGX-gZP1GIEpiSYLa03Za4t-kHf-c4yQRpIi0op0qMc65mvBebXZEdSEUff3C9A/w640-h422/Screenshot%202023-10-05%20at%2018.28.33.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">The stunning and iconic Camps Bay Beach in Cape Town was recently named amongst the most beautiful beaches in the world. Photo: canva</span><p></p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-camps-bay-beach-makes-the-list" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; text-transform: uppercase;">CAMPS BAY BEACH MAKES THE LIST</h2><p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.25em;">The <a href="https://www.westerncape.gov.za/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: #dd1f1f;" target="_blank">Western Cape</a> is beyond blessed with its vast array of stunning landscapes, scenery, attractions and wildlife. And as far as beaches in the region go, the province certainly has some of the very BEST.</p><div class="jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_ads " style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;"><div class="ads-wrapper align-center "><div class="ads_shortcode"><div data-rendered-ad="1" id="ad_placement_content_1"></div></div></div></div><p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.25em;">Now, to prove just that, Cape Town’s Camps Bay Beach was recently named amongst the most beautiful beaches in the world in a study done by <a href="https://blog.betway.com/casino/the-most-beautiful-beaches-in-the-world-to-visit-this-summer/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="color: #dd1f1f;" target="_blank">Betway</a>.</p><p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.25em;">The study ranked the top 100 beaches in the world, looking at visitor reviews, average temperature, rainfall during the summer months, amount of litter and Instagram tags at each location to find out which beaches you should add to your travel bucket list.</p><div class="jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads " style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;"><div class="ads-wrapper align-center "><div class="ads_code"><div data-rendered-ad="1" id="ad_placement_content_2"></div></div></div></div><p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.25em;">ALSO READ: <a href="https://ilovesouthafrica.com/news/best-beaches-of-the-world-where-top-beaches-tripadvisor-breaking-news-24-may-2023/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: #dd1f1f;" target="_blank">Top 25 Beaches of the World: Where are they?</a></p><p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.25em;">Camps Bay Beach featured quite high on the list, making the Top 20 and coming in at number 15. Another Cape Town beach, Hout Bay Beach also jumped into the Top 20, featuring at number 20. Check out the full Top 20 list below:</p><h3 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; text-transform: uppercase;">TOP 20 MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACHES IN THE WORLD</h3><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Elafonissi Beach, Greece</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Turquoise Bay, Australia</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Four Mile Beach, Australia</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Oludeniz Beach, Turkey</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Whitehaven Beach, Australia</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Horseshoe Bay, Bermuda</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Venice Beach, USA</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Red Beach, Greece</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Durdle Door, UK</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Kaputas Beach, Turkey</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">St Paul’s Bay, Greece</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Kelingking Beach, Indoneisa</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">La Concha, Spain</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Diani Beach, Kenya</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Camps Bay, South Africa</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Railay Beach, Thailand</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Beit Yanai, Israel</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Arashi Beach, Aruba</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Egremni Beach, Greece</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">Hout Bay, South Africa</li><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #888888; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">- Article courtesy of The South African</span></span></span></p><p>https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/camps-bay-beach-most-beautiful-beach-in-the-world-ranking-top-100-10-july-2023/</p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px;"></span><span class="Author__StyledAuthor-sc-1ldi0r-0 jCXPdr" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3199999928474426px; margin-left: 0.25em; text-decoration-line: none;"><a class="AmpSafeLink__StyledAmpLink-sc-1f7mdcz-0 bPzsIe" href="https://www.thesouthafrican.com/author/sundeeka-mungroo/" style="color: #f84444; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Sundeeka Mungroo</a></span></p>Camps Bay Ratepayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03000351513192413240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-31498884790475913532023-03-24T11:12:00.009+02:002023-03-24T11:38:35.932+02:00Generator Noise Legislation<p class="p1" style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAGw5djEYtDNEu1RJMJPg36fml4eRHL0ICp9W4sKm6CvdQzJtcecENUb7SVV8gd6Otgm02yhRKZT4KR2Ofsfx0XgZzbaQSQO931zQykBl9z0uXXuptmtWfqEuNUMepvuW2fB8sQH_khhS05-sAXnTYTMz-sON2kNxv7Oer2QaNqNB5ZbzlQ/s783/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2011.36.46.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="783" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAGw5djEYtDNEu1RJMJPg36fml4eRHL0ICp9W4sKm6CvdQzJtcecENUb7SVV8gd6Otgm02yhRKZT4KR2Ofsfx0XgZzbaQSQO931zQykBl9z0uXXuptmtWfqEuNUMepvuW2fB8sQH_khhS05-sAXnTYTMz-sON2kNxv7Oer2QaNqNB5ZbzlQ/w640-h438/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2011.36.46.png" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="p1" style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">LEGISLATION</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Western Cape Noise Control Regulations PN200/2013</b><b>Western Cape Noise Control Regulations PN200/2013</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Regulation 2</span></b></p><p><u><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Prohibition of disturbing noise</span></b></u></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A person may not<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(a) cause a disturbing noise; or<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(b) allow a disturbing noise to be caused by any person, animal, machine, device,<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">apparatus, vehicle, vessel or model aircraft, or any combination thereof.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Regulation 5</span></b></p><p><b><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Noise from machinery in residential areas</span></u></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A person may not use a pool pump, irrigation pump, refrigeration unit, or any heating,<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ventilation or air conditioning equipment, or any similar device, in a residential area if the<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">noise on the property projection plane exceeds 50 dBA or exceeds the residual noise level by<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">more than 5 dBA, except if authorised by the local authority or in an emergency.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Regulation 3</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Finally, any noise source can also be assessed in terms of whether it may be a valid noise<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">nuisance.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">GENERATOR NOISE:</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• standby generators are a large contributor to noise pollution, especially in<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">densely populated areas.<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• generator engines create noise from both their mechanical and combustion<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">forces These sounds range from 100 121 dB depending on the size of the<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">engine Cooling fans are also a big source of noise pollution They produce<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">noise by moving air at high speeds as it passes through the engine and<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">radiator Cooling fans produce noise at levels varying from 100 105 dB at a<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">distance of one meter Alternators cause noise from the friction of the cooling<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">air and the brushes oscillating between 80 90 dBA Inductive noise is caused<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">by fluctuations in the current of the winding of the alternator that causes a<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">mechanical noise that varies between 80 90 dB at a meter Without an<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">exhaust muffler, engine exhaust noise ranges from 120 130 dBA or more, but<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">can be reduced by at least 15 dBA with a standard muffler Mechanical<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">vibrations of the different parts and structural components will also add to the<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">radiating sounds.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Quieter options</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">• </span>Generators with a spin speed of 1500 rpm are quieter than those with a 3000 rpm spin<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">speed. (Diesel/petrol)<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• Water cooled engines are quieter than air cooled gens.<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• Newer technology generators are quieter and more fuel efficient. Newer generators also<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">focus more on smooth running engines and vibration reduction. Inverter type generators<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">are an example.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiAdSO6WYV-IQu70D7JWtP4qUjevzIx-eO9MqTVGeEF9Q0QOjmlOBIyx6TbvtYY_jtB0LhupJsB65RLxlFKIHqvbxDe4cgU2Sg2oN2kVckVRcbDVdyyIN5FCw0PoJ5gW4qjd_tBFwVi_L4aT3a-9ogj0eus7nI9RQ1Aec6Cz2TqkOFxpXWg/s576/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.49.34.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiAdSO6WYV-IQu70D7JWtP4qUjevzIx-eO9MqTVGeEF9Q0QOjmlOBIyx6TbvtYY_jtB0LhupJsB65RLxlFKIHqvbxDe4cgU2Sg2oN2kVckVRcbDVdyyIN5FCw0PoJ5gW4qjd_tBFwVi_L4aT3a-9ogj0eus7nI9RQ1Aec6Cz2TqkOFxpXWg/w400-h266/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.49.34.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Vibrations</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dampers, rubber, and spring mounts are all different types of anti vibration mounts</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These devices basically insert rubber or springs underneath your equipment to absorb</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the vibration waves and not transfer them to the harder concrete base Dampers can be</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">made out of neoprene or rubber and can be made as thick or as thin as needed in order</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">to dampen the specific amount of vibration created by your machine.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigOedaThucv8YPKPB9xW_YSaEANpN0fyBXcLTFv2r3xw2X8EYGSy0xJz3fQYjEGMWcGYHV4KVA_95nbfNSNKwO4HAk_3VYizBiCjXUZ-75q330mTB65gzCAgVHa7FZOaD93CjLWiUJqcm2UVu7tGiZSMi-_bTIC6E0-_hs5WXDm4wIgn2OFw/s779/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.52.32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="779" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigOedaThucv8YPKPB9xW_YSaEANpN0fyBXcLTFv2r3xw2X8EYGSy0xJz3fQYjEGMWcGYHV4KVA_95nbfNSNKwO4HAk_3VYizBiCjXUZ-75q330mTB65gzCAgVHa7FZOaD93CjLWiUJqcm2UVu7tGiZSMi-_bTIC6E0-_hs5WXDm4wIgn2OFw/w640-h286/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.52.32.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Acoustic Barriers or Insulation</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adding an acoustic barrier or insulation to the area around your generator can reduce</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">sound levels by up to 10 dB Acoustic barriers include concrete walls and generator</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">canopies You can also install sound absorbing materials like acoustic wall tiles or panels</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Of course with any enclosure there is a risk of fumes and exhaust building up and</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">causing health concerns for any humans or animals in the immediate area.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-r1EzC4KxActvbyZby4JAqQZW80fHEeG6ghPq93eLdC5-4YeKJw11a6e50JczEdp44a5ZvR_MJxrlpSw3UYRtzPm514wPw6BdPtrsKbyHLSc6L7wR0jUNmCPb_CZ96pxjw0BWt1uqPj3k9C0rM18wO4J0QeSrzGX_enI2AlXeyVqGK-psA/s867/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.53.54.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="867" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-r1EzC4KxActvbyZby4JAqQZW80fHEeG6ghPq93eLdC5-4YeKJw11a6e50JczEdp44a5ZvR_MJxrlpSw3UYRtzPm514wPw6BdPtrsKbyHLSc6L7wR0jUNmCPb_CZ96pxjw0BWt1uqPj3k9C0rM18wO4J0QeSrzGX_enI2AlXeyVqGK-psA/w640-h198/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.53.54.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sound Attenuation Housing</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sound attenuation housings are large enclosures built of steel. They use</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">perforated sheet metal with high density rock called splitter inside. The</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">perforated sheet metal enables large amounts of air to pass through it while</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">absorbing the sound and reducing the sound wavelengths. Attenuators are</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">built depending on the size of your generator and your particular sound</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">attenuation needs.</span></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAwNNabUNp4Vi0ZprQVBaYtIg8Fr8frqlchVR_SPKQc7FmDSYRf6jBhPf4nUibR8mQ_45wGPnHlNNcGit3IdMFN6gXWNH7TLIYCgvRM1qfO4f2ghVFGjfRFGsKorRzJ_HSEY77ZkrWkWQ2QEkxDI_7dPzb4umUC_DjI9Tzx8SEVSd1uEqKw/s597/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.55.19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="597" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAwNNabUNp4Vi0ZprQVBaYtIg8Fr8frqlchVR_SPKQc7FmDSYRf6jBhPf4nUibR8mQ_45wGPnHlNNcGit3IdMFN6gXWNH7TLIYCgvRM1qfO4f2ghVFGjfRFGsKorRzJ_HSEY77ZkrWkWQ2QEkxDI_7dPzb4umUC_DjI9Tzx8SEVSd1uEqKw/w400-h306/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.55.19.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mufflers and Silencers</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• Most generators are equipped with an exhaust muffler There are two main<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">types of mufflers including chamber type and spiral type Chamber type<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">mufflers are more effective while spiral type mufflers are more compact<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• There are three types of silencers including reactive, absorptive, and<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">combination Reactive silencers use three chambers to help trap noise and<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">work best for low to mid range sounds Absorptive silencers use fiberglass<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">insulation to absorb high frequency sounds Combination silencers combine<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">designs of reactive and absorptive silencers to muffle a wide range of sounds<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The only downfall to silencers is that they can possibly restrict airflow to some<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">degree and can impact performance Silencers are broken down into eight<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">categories of noise dampening.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWR7r_Q_-yBOuRp_TKXE10b1hzbxjRWzwALPaW2tiWfgUt1sm7_BY0xgxnTYSExDx9V5EvP27GkZIo9dvp93mg6HAmRQIm35srxOiOIPcwv8GRK6Q1H6g7d8Wz574cmgXtfFmLmgq5SRyLcL3RMKpm4qVYQDGn3NjItpThWv2oO29ZpsBctg/s500/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.56.48.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="500" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWR7r_Q_-yBOuRp_TKXE10b1hzbxjRWzwALPaW2tiWfgUt1sm7_BY0xgxnTYSExDx9V5EvP27GkZIo9dvp93mg6HAmRQIm35srxOiOIPcwv8GRK6Q1H6g7d8Wz574cmgXtfFmLmgq5SRyLcL3RMKpm4qVYQDGn3NjItpThWv2oO29ZpsBctg/w400-h261/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2010.56.48.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sound proofing mufflers</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• Various options available</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• Some more costly than others</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• Have to provide a user with a reasonable time to rectify the transgression</span></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Insulation, baffles and anti-vibration devices</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrbLwchgbgNxYwzrlAgz_-puO4_zkurqrKdfD8AESXYkKkdZC9bqQgi-I1DZFAgUbRwzRCJBj2ld8b9Omc2y93EQjtJ3wZ6aWPF99Gy22Rr3u9zdLFdzCY2YX2Wgu_pOarV9AlNSdyQbvrdf5ryw0VVREEdQSt9S8harTk6Xb30LdkwEBHg/s952/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2011.02.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="952" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrbLwchgbgNxYwzrlAgz_-puO4_zkurqrKdfD8AESXYkKkdZC9bqQgi-I1DZFAgUbRwzRCJBj2ld8b9Omc2y93EQjtJ3wZ6aWPF99Gy22Rr3u9zdLFdzCY2YX2Wgu_pOarV9AlNSdyQbvrdf5ryw0VVREEdQSt9S8harTk6Xb30LdkwEBHg/w400-h213/Screenshot%202023-03-24%20at%2011.02.13.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Increase the Distance</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Moving your generator farther from areas populated by people seems like a</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">no brainer to help reduce noise Doubling the distance between you and your</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">generator can lead to a reduction in noise by about 6 dB Moving the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">generator farther away allows the wavelengths to disperse at a greater</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">distance, which decreases acoustic intensity, reducing the noise significantly.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bugdet</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #404040; font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Before purchasing a generator, consider the pollution factor and budget for</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">noise abatement as well as fume elimination. 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He claims that his plans comply – but that is only because the City has granted massive departures to allow a building that is almost 160% larger than allowed by the special planning conditions pertaining to Camps Bay.<br /><br /></li><li>It is claimed by Mr Scott that the CBCRA and the 94 individual residents who opposed the scheme “lost” against this development 3 times. Interesting point, as there was only a Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) decision and an appeal to the Mayor: That’s two. In any event, MPT decisions are always in favour of development and the Mayor partially upheld the community’s appeal (regarding the parking requirements). These are the actual facts.<br /><br /></li><li>As a footnote to the above issue: The developer applied for a departure to provide only 58 parking bays in lieu of the required 120, which the MPT, of course, granted. On appeal by the community, the Mayor upheld this point and refused to grant the departure. Very conveniently for the developer, the City subsequently changed the regulations regarding the parking requirement to require only 50 bays! More on this when the application is launched.<br /><br /></li><li>More to the point, the CBCRA understands that the City will, ultimately, always support and approve any type of development that increases the rates base for that property and help developers amass large profits – regardless of the affect on the community or the values of adjoining properties. The community’s opportunity for a fair hearing only comes when the matter is taken to court. That is where the CBCRA has been totally successful in over 50 cases over the years.<br /><br /></li><li>Mr Scott is invited to visit the closed-down site at 22 Sedgemoor Rd and reflect on the following:<br />The developer had a Land Use Management approval and a City-approved plan to which he was building – but it was gained by the usual preferential treatment afforded to developers by the City. The CBCRA and many neighbours took this matter to the High Court and won the case. This highlights two important issues:</li><ul><li>City-approved plans are not very reliable when considered in open court.</li><li>The CBCRA is not some vigilante group, acting out of personal prejudice and on a crusade, as Mr Scott would have you believe, but a volunteer group which acts with the community in the best interests of Camps Bay and seeks to enforce the rule of law. By his own admission, Mr Scott’s plans are not compliant with the regulatory requirements for Camps Bay.<br /><br /></li></ul><li>It is further suggested that the CBCRA should allow democratically and qualified persons decide the future built form of our suburb. Maybe Mr Scott is unaware that no locally elected person may be involved in planning matters and as for the appointed officials, who simply ignore the rights of ratepayers, little can be said. In any event, let the residents of Camps Bay have a say in matters relating to their suburb, or is that too democratic for the commercial interests that seek to control our future?<br /><br /></li><li>It is useful that Mr Scott has attached his “architect’s impression” perspectives to his missive. Clearly, with his commercial interest in this development, it will be to calm the nerves of anxious residents. He has won over a few – but not the many who understand how these things work. In his first graphic impression, on p1, he indicates a front elevation of the building, with an outline of the adjoining Tigers Milk building. The CBCRA rendition, of which he complains so bitterly, shows the very same relationship between the two buildings. However, he does not show the hotel as extending behind Tigers Milk, as it is on his approved plans. The rest of his perspectives do not appear to help his case much as they speak to a massive block that attempts to utilise every square millimetre available – and the extra 60 – 70% non-compliant bulk offered by the City. <br /><br /></li><li>If one has regard to his first graphic impression (p1) and Image 1 (p3), then it is clear who is trying to mislead. The former shows the mountain just visible above the Tigers Milk building and clearly lower than the height of the new building. Given that the new building will extend behind Tigers Milk, then it is obvious to any neutral observer that the view of the mountain will be blocked!<br /><br /></li><li>Image 1, and the following images, then, is a clear attempt to deceive – or today’s students might have to re-learn the height of Table Mountain!<br /><br /></li><li>The CBCRA presented a peer review of the developer’s Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) to the MPT. Although it was a very detailed report, which raised serious concerns about the assumptions and conclusions of the TIA, the MPT simply didn’t even read it!<br /><br /></li><li>This site offers a wonderful opportunity to create a building that is appropriate to the area and could be iconic to the beachfront. However, it appears as if commercial concerns have outweighed any such sensibility.<br /><br /></li><li>It is claimed that the new building is no higher than the old Place on the Bay (POB). Given that the POB had an illegal fourth floor (and therefore height), this is an interesting departure point: Relying on previous illegal work to justify non-conformity with the current regulations of 3 storeys and 10m height restrictions. Further, he has “overcome” the 10m restriction on the Fairways side of the building by introducing a 1m “step” in the façade and thereby claiming 2 facades, totalling almost 15m in height (ie each “façade” not higher than 10m). There is no provision in the regulations to split a façade in this manner, just a ploy by the City planners to assist with a non-compliant building application. In any event, it will present as a 15m building from the street, which is obviously unacceptable.<br /><br /></li><li>On a lighter note, the CBCRA does agree with Mr Scott that there was little aesthetic value in the previous POB building – but having demolished it, why erect another monument to commercial greed?<br /><br /></li><li>No application or approval in terms of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) was produced in this application. Any work that involves the excavation of more than 5m3 of soil, within 100m of the high-water mark, requires environmental authorisation. <br /><br /></li><li>For the sake of brevity, we will not further labour this matter and trust that the residents of Camps Bay will see through the veil of deception that cloaks this development – and fully support the neighbours and CBCRA in stopping it in its present form.</li></ul><p></p><div><br /></div><div>Best regards</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Chris Willemse</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Chair</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers Association</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CBCRA</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tel: 083 653 6363</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">E-mail: campsbayratepayers@gmail.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Blog: http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p></p><p>Please refer to Greg Scott's letter and the previous CBCRA letter below:</p><p><a href="http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com/2023/02/beachfront-hotel-greg-scott-replies-to.html">http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com/2023/02/beachfront-hotel-greg-scott-replies-to.html</a></p><p><a href="http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com/2023/02/beachfront-hotel-help-prevent.html">http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com/2023/02/beachfront-hotel-help-prevent.html</a><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please also refer to the historic data on this matter as recorded on our blog:</p><p><a href="http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com/2020/07/proposed-rezoning-4-fairway-avenue.html">http://campsbayratepayers.blogspot.com/2020/07/proposed-rezoning-4-fairway-avenue.html</a></p><p><br /></p>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-80869491656930597592023-02-22T10:19:00.002+02:002023-02-22T15:35:02.599+02:00Beachfront Hotel: Greg Scott replies to the CBCRA's letter<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">The Codfather</span></a></span> for the incredible opportunity you have given him.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We value the true form of transformation off street… and that anything is indeed possible…when you put your mind to it. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Joseph would love to see more of his regular customers…please support businesses who support our <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/igniteresponsibly?__eep__=6&__gid__=729347114196246&__cft__[0]=AZW4mT9XBhKFZicDglq0vyXLnO4-3wWkfFB2xjc76Riu4KczK-nFF7IZKmBmavBDFlPzwyJUScS6lBxF97CbxAa68KQCBIcXWaeQ1n3ckWzxq_27oyE6MxSlcuB6wCAQYUDj-mcTlhpbKR5JnKrSbnCEt2CQGJaiDTMhdJsLmCFrRx-NOHrQbgA8w_rzW8Z_tPQ&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#igniteresponsibly</a></span> community social upliftment efforts.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Posted by https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNS8kGH_SGzK2UZTjSFzhynHhcImJSp_eZRacBU2UsuQrG7-ohdcFacuiFlc-VfRhomGz2EGDOW59q7XWHfh8nTKGMp5BhF0mc2UVyX4PvNqkPBVIeCusSDcKMoPb5VKghtSna8Q92HMekr1dhsJyYn3iM6nr7Yt70UzIMVYwh0DPuHZNOLQ/s2048/331624164_908924370300751_862122148788286250_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNS8kGH_SGzK2UZTjSFzhynHhcImJSp_eZRacBU2UsuQrG7-ohdcFacuiFlc-VfRhomGz2EGDOW59q7XWHfh8nTKGMp5BhF0mc2UVyX4PvNqkPBVIeCusSDcKMoPb5VKghtSna8Q92HMekr1dhsJyYn3iM6nr7Yt70UzIMVYwh0DPuHZNOLQ/w320-h400/331624164_908924370300751_862122148788286250_n.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div></div>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-1339037362595140732023-02-20T15:44:00.001+02:002023-02-22T16:28:44.309+02:00CCT Property Valuations 2022 - get your objections in now<p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">City of Cape Town GV22 (General Property Valuation 2022) is now open</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The General Valuation Roll (GVR) is a document containing the municipal valuations of all the registered properties within the boundaries of the City of Cape Town and is used to calculate the rates that property owners are required to pay. You are able to object to your property valuation during the objection period.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The GVR gives the market value of a property on a certain date. It applies to all properties in Cape Town and is used to calculate the monthly rates that property owners are required to pay for general services such as street lighting, parks, libraries and fire services.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The municipal valuer, is responsible for producing the GVR and is assisted by professional valuers, statistical analysts, data collectors, and support staff.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Together, they collect and review property sales and data that take place around the date of valuation and generate a valuation using the Computer-assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To ensure fairness, the GVR is verified/externally assured by an independent body – the GV2022 was audited by International Property Tax Institute.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">General Valuation Roll for 2022 (GV2022)</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 2022 General Valuation Roll (GV2022) was certified on 31 January 2023. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">All properties on the GV2022 Roll are representative of market value as at 1 July 2022. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Property owners are able to submit objections:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Electronically via e-Services or email until 30 April 2023 </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In-person at public inspection and objection venues until 31 March 2023</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">No late objections will be accepted.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Follow the link below for detailed instructions on how to object your property valuation:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.capetown.gov.za/City-Connect/Claim-or-dispute/Contest-a-property-valuation/Dispute-your-property-valuation"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.capetown.gov.za/City-Connect/Claim-or-dispute/Contest-a-property-valuation/Dispute-your-property-valuation</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Account locks for properties with objections</b></p><p>Account locks will be inserted for all properties with valid objections. The account lock will prevent debt collection action on the property rates portion of the municipal account while the objection is under investigation.</p><p>Account locks will be removed after the objection is finalised, and the account will be recalculated based on the objection decision valuation. </p><p><i>PAYMENT OF MUNICIPAL RATES</i></p><p><i>The Account Lock will allow you to make rates payments on the valuation you believe to be correct while the objection is outstanding, without incurring debt collection action.</i></p><p><i>Following the update of the objection decision valuation on your municipal account, you will be liable any amounts owing on your municipal account. </i></p><p>Should the finalised objection result in the City owing you, this will be repaid to you with interest. Should the objection decision result in an increase in your valuation, or the valuation remains the same, all interest calculated on the arrears will become payable.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Supplementary Valuation Roll (SVR)</b></p><p>Properties are currently being selected for valuation in the SV05/GV2018 roll. The SV05/GV2018 Roll will be certified in June 2023.</p><p>The City must certify and publish at least one SVR per year.</p><p>The SVR contains details of properties that were not included in the last GV Roll, as well as any properties that have been changed.</p><p>According to the amended Local Government Municipal Property Rates Act(Act 6 of 2004) , a property is determined to have changed, if it has:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>been identified as having been previously incorrectly valued;</li><li>been incorrectly recorded in the last GVR because of a clerical or typing error;</li><li>been omitted from the valuation roll;</li><li>been recently added to the municipality;</li><li>been subdivided or consolidated;</li><li>changed in category</li><li>had a building plan signed off;</li><li>had a significant increase or decrease in market value since the last GVR;</li></ul><p></p><p>If your property is included in an SVR, the City will post two notices to you.</p><p>Notice 1 will be posted immediately after the SV valuation is completed, and will inform you of your right to request a review. You will need to email valuationsobjection@capetown.gov.za to obtain the official review form and return the completed form to the same address.</p><p>Notice 2 will be posted to you after the SV Roll is certified. This notice will inform you of your right to object, and outline the process for submitting an objection. You can obtain an official form by emailing valuationsobjection@capetown.gov.za and must return the completed form to the same address.</p><p><br /></p><p>UPCOMING VALUATIONS</p><p>The City Valuation Office will value properties for the SV01/GV2022 roll as from 1 July 2023.</p><p><br /></p><p>Contact us</p><p>Telephone:</p><p>0860 103 089</p><p><br /></p><p>Email:</p><p><a href="mailto:valuations@capetown.gov.za">valuations@capetown.gov.za</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Document downloads</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15l0pd9betREoW_gOTsX1JhkkNdbGNLYQ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">How to Search For Your Property on the GV2022 Roll 20/02/2023, Guideline - 791.5 KB</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MhIOvHB67eJlNDK6LOJnnAjy18-8iOSa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Valuations Tariffs 01/07/2022, Budget annexure,Tariff - 670.1 KB</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bm3AfKysgAC-eDJ95bGdmzH-0W3rxVi0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">General and Supplementary Valuations FAQs 20/02/2023, FAQs - 354.2 KB</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From City of Cape Town website: https://www.capetown.gov.za/Family%20and%20home/Residential-property-and-houses/property-valuations/general-and-supplementary-valuations</p><p><br /></p><h2 class="sectHeading" id="Heading2" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-size: 30px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-76019566643981145572023-02-16T10:32:00.001+02:002023-02-22T10:42:41.384+02:00ignisive supports Kaksteenfontein Primary with local business sponsors<p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s a saying that often gets bantered around in business… “Together Everyone Achieves More” (meaning of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/team?__eep__=6&__gid__=729347114196246&__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breaking the vicious cycle of destruction and building on the broken system in society is so critical, if we are serious about achieving meaningful change.</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">We absolutely value the collective skills and contributions of:</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> MS HAMAN </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(School Principle), </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEACHERS & CHILDREN</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/690542649/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Wendy Isaacs</span></a></span> </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/oobahomeloans/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ooba</span></a></span> Human Capital) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">as Guest Speaker</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Mala G. Bryan </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(International Model and Official Malaville Dolls Fan Club Founder/Creator) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">as Guest Speaker </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> KIM WEBSTER and CRISTAL COLLINS </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(WebsterBiz Consulting) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">for arranging pamper gifts for all the teachers and organizing READING GLASSES Sponsorship through LAMEEZ EKSTEEN & Team at <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/OneSight/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">OneSight</span></a></span> and SCHOOL SHOES Sponsorship through <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/1410830712/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Frank Paco Steyn</span></a></span> & Team at <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/run4school/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Run4schools</span></a></span> </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/578960745/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Steven Maresch</span></a></span> </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(@ilovecampsbay / Bo-Vine Wine & Grill House / Beach House Camps Bay ) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> WATER sponsor </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> MELISSA GAYNOR & STEPHAN DE SWART </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Verve) - @ilovecampsbay </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">WATER PARTNERSHIP</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Village N Life Travel / CHEF HENRY </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(@villagebakery.ct , <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/thebayhotel/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">The Bay Hotel</span></a></span> ) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">for VALENTINES COOKIES</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> NIEL VALENTYN & TEAM </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/Picknpay/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Pick n Pay</span></a></span> Camps Bay) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">for DOUGHNUT and SNACK PLATTER sponsor </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> JAMES MCDOUGALL </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(CGS - Custodian Global Security) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the SANDWICH Donation </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> @susan <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/1477177402/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Susan Rose Rabinowitz</span></a></span> </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Camps Bay Community) </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">for donating the JUICES for the children </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️🔥" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbf/1/16/2764_200d_1f525.png" style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" width="16" /></span><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> SGNT <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/100009290869554/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Glynnis Jean Bester</span></a></span> </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">(South African Police Service), </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/100001740451799/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Tony Lottering</span></a></span> (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/WesternCapeGovernment/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Western Cape Government</span></a></span> DCAS), </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/100004814922469/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Karen Rudy</span></a></span>, </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/1337319979/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Alan Marsh</span></a></span> , <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/744995056/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Theresa Massaglia</span></a></span> (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/100066884862536/?__cft__[0]=AZVsapmFNSi7oYAecKXC9sHWG_TkBbZLLebtSXVqeyAQoWO-8HY7rZ1Fvveii-5aN_vcM81pWdbRJY-Yuy_ZLfVs2I7HBf4g4patkBSID-XHRrA5izkEn2thj-fUAoQiJgpwJxw7MQ9XWwpFhJDw6n-uEfLh36wza-1ydhERHSOT212AtcajCNYGALv7hpdAeW0&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Ignisive - ignite inclusive change</span></a></span> </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">A+ Positive Action Team) for VOLUNTEERING event support and FACILITATING workshop with the Grade 6 and 7’s</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">May each child today value their unique self and the gift they are in this world.</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">“LOVE is such a powerful force. </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's there for everyone to embrace - that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. </div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.”</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">- CORETTA SCOTT KING</div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">posted by https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjFfqKNwrkXNumQ2KgGBpSLg-6CPTCHpkvhahG86ZH4Jmais4Ntbz5Olf95AfUeS2a2llcdOPXq7wDahkKeiaHFls7bLyA60kZgPbQgtNAyP9hWrOT9S33xGQiojZaJfbkaFayJCQuQhHzLunhyFgCexAqtViWEGbBeukZV3de3rhO_y3DQ/s1800/330411370_1228540641416255_1179026196649417857_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #050505; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></div>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27122445.post-74022916828630954602023-02-13T10:27:00.001+02:002023-02-22T10:31:41.744+02:00Village Bakery in Camps Bay donates bread to Safe Spaces<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbzBhsNRlHSN9Zgce_3xeOyf1Y1HzU4Oz20o0YUtxypAON764tRtrUIrI6twVge4AuIsLyp53Z9V9TX3BP7rhBYpyLlsoYccDA60FsU4r6a9J7PjUdgOIrz4DBbglEIrA25EOLJ_wgFWqfLp1xCXtpRncK9rsaqqWLHOeRqu1ekcmH-nn3Og/s2048/330956423_1259816987947934_3063487326752872194_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbzBhsNRlHSN9Zgce_3xeOyf1Y1HzU4Oz20o0YUtxypAON764tRtrUIrI6twVge4AuIsLyp53Z9V9TX3BP7rhBYpyLlsoYccDA60FsU4r6a9J7PjUdgOIrz4DBbglEIrA25EOLJ_wgFWqfLp1xCXtpRncK9rsaqqWLHOeRqu1ekcmH-nn3Og/w640-h480/330956423_1259816987947934_3063487326752872194_n.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div>Thanks @villagebakery.ct team for the kind donation of delicious breads to the Safe Space (a secure sleeping space for Homeless Adults committed to reintegrating off street).</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When supporting @villagebakery.ct 10% of their monthly sales will be donated to <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/729347114196246/user/100066884862536/?__cft__[0]=AZU8OZes4VdSBScbpbJZtsaMmZiNyKDcgEVqTN_GvevYgrKErH3x71312bwCBBs7G-T_sxiA2iPhGkOadjaSTt_zRmGV8hAgmspG9u0TihZCTk6zXtvCcCUxTUZa-TooY12y9gk5kCIwj3of8CrSJosAD_CAfRjjLRwAa_ulEqVvzOVfmkaoABXDypFLosnt9Ic&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Ignisive - ignite inclusive change</span></a></span> , helping us raise funds to continue with our initiative and efforts.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Conveniently located in The Rotunda at The Bay Hotel. To place an order, WhatsApp them on:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">072 <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>985 6809</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Alma Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165686033158815095noreply@blogger.com0