Amazon and ancient tribe face off over Cape Town headquarters

[Jan]

Amazon faces off with ancient South African tribe over Cape Town headquarters

On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the Liesbeek and Black rivers meet in a small stretch of marshland.

The 37-acre plot isn’t pristine — it lies next to a railyard and was until recently home to a golf course — but for centuries, this land has been sacred ground for the Khoisan, a southern African tribe that traces its lineage back more than 100,000 years.

 

[chrisc]

A study at UCT showed that the actual land on which Amazon is building has never been used, by anybody except for grazing purposes

This is yet another money-grabbing exercise

Are we simply to go back to the Stone Age? Manhattan was once "sacred Indian ground" The same applies to parts of London and many other cities

 

[azbob]

Imagine if the Bantu hadn’t moved down from the north and eradicated these people. There would have been even more of such nonsense in the country.

 

[Senor]

Amazon should do the right thing and just Let them go back to digging up roots and eating insects.

 

[Fuzzbox]

And in 100000 years it will look the same .
Move out the way for technology.

 

[ShaunSA]

Considering there's a **** ton of vacant land everywhere wtf didn't they pick unsacred ground from the beginning?

 

[wbot]

A study at UCT showed that the actual land on which Amazon is building has never been used, by anybody except for grazing purposes

To be fair land doesn't have to ever be used for it to be sacred. People like these or the Aborigines in Aus etc won't really use land they see as sacred because that would piss off the ancestors who live on these lands or whatever.

Don't know why Amazon can't just find some other piece of land. But then again someone will have an issue with that piece of land as well so yeah...

 

[wbot]

Considering there's a **** ton of vacant land everywhere wtf didn't they pick unsacred ground from the beginning?

Someone will probably say that unsacred land is now sacred as well.

 

[ShaunSA]

Someone will probably say that unsacred land is now sacred as well.

No vok you chose a place that has a building already. Plenty of spots in dirtbin if you need

 

[Pegasus]

Dunno why they care about a tiny piece of swamp land when they can claim about half of Africa.

 

[garyc]

This site holds special significance due to the battle against colonists on the beach where the Swartrivier enters the ocean. Other areas with even greater proximity to the site of the battle should also be reevaluated. All of Paarden Island must be even more sacred than the Amazon site.

 

[Corelli]

Sorry to say. Its their land.

Amazon didnt pick that, the developers wanted that to make max profit for them. They got it cheap, could make bundles from it, and the land according to them had no one that could oppose them for it. Heck Amazon wouldve been better off building in Durbanville or Stellenbosch even. But considering their other building is in town, and the property prices in town are helluva high, they could get this land for a bargain as long as they would side with the DA to steal the land from the original owners.

We sent JVR here in 1652, that land is well documented in our family's journals as being holy land, but the DA (basically the English) will simply take and steal as they have always done. And so the land was basically given to the developers.

The DA is well known to take community land and to sell it to private developers for a profit, then make more money from building approvals, even though the community strictly oppose it, they will simply rubberstamp it and tell the community where to shove their complaints.

 

[Corelli]

This site holds special significance due to the battle against colonists on the beach where the Swartrivier enters the ocean. Other areas with even greater proximity to the site of the battle should also be reevaluated. All of Paarden Island must be even more sacred than the Amazon site.

Paarden Island used to be a farm, quite a few years ago, it was sold for a sum of R20 million for development into business complex.

Table View for an example belonged to the Langermann trust. Still sitting with photo albums and journals showing that. Including a few hand drawn maps

 

[ShaunSA]

Sorry to say. Its their land.

Amazon didnt pick that, the developers wanted that to make max profit for them. They got it cheap, could make bundles from it, and the land according to them had no one that could oppose them for it. Heck Amazon wouldve been better off building in Durbanville or Stellenbosch even. But considering their other building is in town, and the property prices in town are helluva high, they could get this land for a bargain as long as they would side with the DA to steal the land from the original owners.

We sent JVR here in 1652, that land is well documented in our family's journals as being holy land, but the DA (basically the English) will simply take and steal as they have always done. And so the land was basically given to the developers.

The DA is well known to take community land and to sell it to private developers for a profit, then make more money from building approvals, even though the community strictly oppose it, they will simply rubberstamp it and tell the community where to shove their complaints.

Say have you finished packing up your family's valuable paintings and antiques and moved yet?

Pity you can't get back all the stuff from those Museums

 

[azbob]

Say have you finished packing up your family's valuable paintings and antiques and moved yet?

Pity you can't get back all the stuff from those Museums

Unlike chrisc, this one might be the real deal. Might.

 

[ShaunSA]

Unlike chrisc, this one might be the real deal. Might.

Nah I've seen enough tall stories in my time. Calling bullschit on this one too

 

[OhYeah84]

but the DA (basically the English) will simply take and steal as they have always done.

...this was where I stopped reading.
Did you forget who entrenched Apartheid since you brought up languages?

 

[Unreal]

Headline coincides with Avatar theatre release date

 

[SauRoNZA]

Sorry to say. Its their land.

Amazon didnt pick that, the developers wanted that to make max profit for them. They got it cheap, could make bundles from it, and the land according to them had no one that could oppose them for it. Heck Amazon wouldve been better off building in Durbanville or Stellenbosch even. But considering their other building is in town, and the property prices in town are helluva high, they could get this land for a bargain as long as they would side with the DA to steal the land from the original owners.

We sent JVR here in 1652, that land is well documented in our family's journals as being holy land, but the DA (basically the English) will simply take and steal as they have always done. And so the land was basically given to the developers.

The DA is well known to take community land and to sell it to private developers for a profit, then make more money from building approvals, even though the community strictly oppose it, they will simply rubberstamp it and tell the community where to shove their complaints.

Amazon very much picked it.

They had plenty of options and had it highlighted that this would be a problem and still chose to forge ahead because...AMERICA **** yeah!

That being said this was a Golf Course before without an issue for many years and only became and issue because Amazon was involved.

 

[_TrXtR_]

Ah heritage.
As an Afrikaaner my heritage is a bunch of dumb people voting for a bunch of dumb people to run the country. Don't destroy my heritage it must be protected