Gig guide: Into october
One less obstacle for Bishopscourt land claimants
Dreams of returning home to Bishopscourt, one of the most expensive suburbs in Cape Town today, are a step closer for 86 families evicted during apartheid. This after an appeal against the Protea Village restitution housing project was withdrawn.
The Friends of Liesbeek Association had brought a town planning appeal on environmental grounds.… Read more
Everyone dies: No gauche debutante
Not thinking about death – our own and that of the people we love – is probably a mechanism of the mind that prevents us from being paralysed by its inevitability. Although, paradoxically, death can provide the impetus to enjoy life while we have it, and to find the kind of perspective that allows us to gracefully deal with the daily frustrations and irritations that accompany a beating heart.… Read more
Gig guide: September
Like, spring is coming. You think? GET OUT AND DO SHIT
Theatre
There’s been some antici……..pation titillating the nerve endings since the announcement a couple of months ago that SA author Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise would be adapted for stage.… Read more
Father and son forge a Sierra-driven bond
The Mother City car culture is an intergenerational thing, and in today’s story this comes to life as a passion for Ford, and restoration skills passed down from father to son.
About 15 years ago Nur Kemp was a legend on the local scene with his paint-flip split-bonnet Ford Sierra a source of wonder across the Cape.… Read more
Amazon development: Lawyer in qualification lie
- Timothy Dunn, an attorney in the River Club dispute, does not have the master’s degree he claims to have
The lawyer who brought a case to the High Court which accused a First Nations leader opposed to the controversial R4,6-billion Amazon development at the River Club of fraud, has misrepresented his own qualifications to the public.… Read more
Attorney in midst of Amazon development debacle faces Legal Practice Council complaint
Besides misrepresenting his qualifications, a complaint has been laid against Cape Town attorney Timothy Dunn with the Legal Practice Council by the Willow Arts Collective (WAC).
The collective is a group of about 30 people who occupy the former National Circus School grounds at 2 Willow Street in Observatory.… Read more
Lawyer back on trial for malicious damage to property
- Gary Trappler, an attorney, allegedly slashed a Green Point resident’s car tyres more than three years ago.
- The case against Trappler was initially withdrawn, but the introduction of CCTV footage has seen the case reinstated.
- However, the case has been postponed because the magistrate was absent.
River Club: New twist in the plot
The founder of the Krotoa of the Goringhaicona says he told developers to target Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council leader Tauriq Jenkins
The founder of Krotoa of the Goringhaicona, an organisation which favoured the development of the River Club site in Cape Town, has revealed that he urged the developers to target the leader of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council, which opposed the development.… Read more
June gig guide: give uncle Gweezy the middle finger
