SA Politics Thread Part 13 The Days of Madlanga

Priapus said:
**** these parasites. Going to the home like that makes it better?

He was disastrous as HA minister and just as bad as health minister.
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I get your point (he was useless as HA and HM) but I am sure he would be described as being heartless if he didn't go/talk to family.
 
Sideshow Bob said:
I get your point (he was useless as HA and HM) but I am sure he would be described as being heartless if he didn't go/talk to family.
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To me it is Kringe... He is involved in the murder of someone , now he want to go talk to them
Its not like it was an accident. They were probably speeding
 
Grant said:
DA run CoCT - business as usual:

Legal battle erupts over Sea Point flats as residents fight back​


not exactly riveting reading - but CoCT rubber stamping anything & everything developers choose to do:

Buildings previously at the sites were older than sixty years old. (heritage protection) - city permitted demolition.
(for the rest of us, we cannot even paint an exterior wall of a heritage building without submitting documentation seeking approval)

CoCT modus operandi:
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I don't understand how this went forward if the mayor upheld the appeal?
 
Sideshow Bob said:
I get your point (he was useless as HA and HM) but I am sure he would be described as being heartless if he didn't go/talk to family.
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Yeah the same people who are moaning that he visited the family would be same one saying he is heartless if he didn't show up, moan when nothing is being done, moan even more when something is being done.
 
Vox Populi Vox Dei said:
I don't understand how this went forward if the mayor upheld the appeal?
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CoCT modus operandi 101:

A) Operate on a fait accompli basis.
B) Take the City to court if you don't like it.

The root of the problem is the insatiable quest to exponentially increase urban densification.
to that end, the city in it's infinite wisdom hatched what it assumed was a cunning plan.

in order to offer carrots to developers, the city went into stealth mode and changed some bylaws.
the big carrot - build on or within 50m of a public transport route and there will no longer be requirement to provide off-street parking for the residents.
and so it came to pass - no announcement or public participation process, the city simply rode roughshod over it's residents.
this was manna from heaven for developers, no more wasted space to provide pesky parking - more profit - and who can blame them taking advantage.
in all this, gormless officials somehow thought everybody would henceforth be catching the bus !

all was not lost, or so the city thought - increased developments would alleviate the critical shortage of reasonably priced housing on the atlantic seaboard.

nay - developers were 2 steps ahead.
they quickly went to work constructing large buildings containing apartments little more spacious than rats nests - 25m sq apartments for R2.2m upward.
needless to say this has not alleviated the "previous" accommodation shortage, but in fact exacerbated it - investors buying up the rats nests to be used for airbnb type accommodation.


there is more to this saga - but i need to get my arse to the airport !
 
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