Leslie London and Tauriq Jenkins respond to several claims made by the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust, saying the court ruling should make it abundantly clear the that the development at River Club was halted for good reason. READ | Court stops R4.5-billion River Club development, including new Amazon headquartersWhen Judge Goliath rejected leave to appeal, she repeated the observation that if the developers pursued the development, they did so entirely at their own risk. Why the River Club was leapfrogged to the top of a new shortlist of three is something that Amazon might regret. Lastly, the fiction that the Liesbeek River is highly polluted is a misrepresentation that must be finally put to rest. Nothing that is done to the 500m of the artificial Liesbeek canal will materially improve the 9km of the Liesbeek River course nor improve water quality in the severely polluted Black River.

Source: News 24 May 26, 2022 07:30 UTC