Source a: Dontse Yakhe (DY)/Hughenden Grey and Black Water from night-buckets, washing etc. is consistently decanted into the sides of township roads. This polluted water now runs from the upper sections of DY via the newly constructed road down into the existing Hughenden stormwater system, and out into the river. During a site-meeting in July…
Read MoreFYI Hughenden Estate owners have had meetings with Quintas, the mayor, Matthew Kempthorne, Riana Pretorius et al. There have been 2 site meetings regarding the incomplete fence and other issues. Numerous emails with images have been sent by us to CoCT. In an attempt to get out of here, because frankly, living in these circumstances…
Read MoreHout Bay, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 – The Hout Bay Ratepayers Association (“HBRA”) held a successful Annual General Meeting on 27 August 2019. During the Chairperson’s address a few achievements of the past year were highlighted, notably taking the City of Cape Town to task in order to force the City to comply with legally…
Read MoreWhose interests are political parties supposed to serve? The answer seems obvious, the interests of their voters of course. Local government, as opposed to National and Provincial, is the only level of government with directly elected political representatives. Political parties and their representatives are voted into power to represent the interests of their constituents, and…
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Read MoreBACKGROUND FACTS Since the early Nineties the community of Hout Bay and Imizamo Yethu have been negotiating with local and provincial government, to provide and to properly develop land for the existing informal settlers living in various places in Hout Bay. Initially only about 45 families were affected, but by the time the negotiations took…
Read MoreThe following article from 2004 is almost an exact replica of what is playing itself out again now in IY in 2018. When will it end? When will the city abide by it’s own resolutions? When will it take RESPONSIBILITY for IY and it’s sprawl? Hout Bay ratepayers, city in fresh dispute
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Read MoreI reside in Riverside Terrace, a long established, quiet rural residential area that will abut the National Government’s proposed development of a 1000 + new gap housing units between the Main road down to the banks of the Disa River. The proposed development will impact not only the Riverside Terrace residents but Hout Bay as…
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