Botmaskop: Scar on the mountain | Carte Blanche | M-Net

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𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟲 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.
A half-hour walk up the mountain above Unie Park in Stellenbosch takes you to a huge construction site where ground has been broken for what is meant to be one of the Cape's new exclusive lifestyle estates. Roads have been laid on the steep slope and reinforced to prevent erosion, alien plants have been cleared, and the entire area enclosed with a fence which snakes down the mountainside. Luxury houses will go up here, commanding breathtaking views. The developers are selling plots for millions, attracting both local and international buyers who want a taste of the high-end Winelands lifestyle. But, for Stellenbosch residents concerned with urban heritage, this development feels very different from the small mountain resort they approved in a 2003 public participation process. And people living in neighbouring Ida’s Valley are chafing at a controversial land swap which they allege favours the developers with a sliver of municipal land in exchange for steep ground on which the developer cannot build. This at a time when plans for social housing on an adjacent piece of land seem to have fallen off the table. Carte Blanche examines the paper trail which throws light and shade on the convoluted process of environmental authorisation for an exclusive housing estate.
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9 окт 2024

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@schucks 5 часов назад

She is part of it, her dont care attitude says it all.

@markmcculloch2570 5 часов назад

She loves expanding. Just look at the attitude.

@Eliz020958 4 часа назад

Lifestyle audit

@charmelbhagdath9239 3 часа назад

Municipal manager doesn't seem intelligent enough. Basic matriculants answers about development blah-blah. Also bossy and commanding when answering. Purely grandstanding and defensive. Watch the eye movements alternating between truth and lies.

@danievermeulen5469 4 часа назад

Stellenbosch mafia at work again! You can’t beat them.

@augustinekubalo4360 4 часа назад

She is definitely getting something out of it, some sort of benefit or kickback. Look into her

@user-pe8uk4do5j 5 часов назад

Very sad indeed that government allows such estates in such a beautiful place.

@truth-Hurts375 36 минут назад

Imagine the money these White Developers pay to get these approved ....

@Annemarievanwyk 3 часа назад

If they bought it for R200 million there is no way that only 77 houses will be built there. What you showed is phase one of Botmaskop. There are two more phases stretching all along Helshoogte pass. Follow the electic fencing and you will see the extent of the planned development. It is all the way up to Delaire wine estate. You missed that part of the story. The whole mountain will be turned into a luxury suburb.

@heinewittgenstein3994 2 часа назад

So, Stellenbosch must reject tens of millions a year in property taxes and rich people moving in, creating jobs because some spoiled white kid is worried about flowers? This is why nobody should listen to academics.

@LukhanyoHlophe 4 часа назад

Was watching Listing Cape Town just a few hours ago, Stellenbosch and Franshoek have beautiful farm estates i must say.

@markmcculloch2570 5 часов назад

The rich can never be trusted. Period.

@tanndobaloyi3338 3 часа назад

Some towns have nice problems

@lizlsnyman-bouwer4238 4 часа назад

This is sickening. I can’t help feeling helpless in Midrand on agricultural holdings if this kind of thing is happening in Stellenbosch. I don’t think the general rates payer participates in most public participation processes when it comes to new developments. It’s published in the government gazette - who really follows that religiously? And town planners have so many sneaky ways of excluding interested and affected parties with backward municipal processes like using postal services to inform immediate neighbours while every single South African knows postal services is no longer a functional service. When will municipal bylaws, processes and procedures catch up with 2024 (and earlier) realities of a serious breakdown in basic services far beyond their locus of control? In the meantime developments like these are happening and local residents are suffering. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for development and progress. But it’s got to be a fair process.

@alfredwebster8031 4 часа назад

Stellenbosch, Franshoek and Paarl, the future.

@zikhonankabi1974 4 часа назад

What in the Yellowstone, is going on...

@ji-youngj573 3 часа назад

6:21 I reacted the same too! She could be benefiting from this.

@adeptiotsolutions3644 4 часа назад

Follow the money

@lensflash 5 часов назад

Imagine all the rates and taxes the estate would add to the council coffers

@neilneil1652 2 часа назад

Excatly.....

@MarnusvdMerwe 3 часа назад

The municipality should have auctioned off the land itself and develop it. Would have been fair and transparent

@mrm7505 3 часа назад

Land is auctioned for development consistent with the existing or higher value in some suburbs and for social housing in others with no regard for existing owners and impact on property values.