Amazon could pull the plug on new SA headquarters

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Amazon could pull the plug on new SA headquarters

Amazon is running out of patience with delays to the R4.6-billion River Club multi-purpose complex in Cape Town. Should it withdraw, the developer would have to scrap the entire project.

The Sunday Times reports developer Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust (LLPT) filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court of Appeal this week with the warning.

 

[wingnut771]

I would. First Nation wants to eat dirt, let them.

 

[Zyzzyva]

Reminds me of AOC in all her wisdom losing New York an Amazon headquarters.

 

[bwana]

Can't say I blame them. Ancestors make lousy customers.

 

[BBSA]

It will be a win for decolonisation

 

[OCP]

Who is to blame - ANC or COCT/DA?

 

[WAslayer]

Who is to blame - ANC or COCT/DA?

Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Council (GKKTC) and Observatory Civic Association

 

[Dave]

Reminds me of AOC in all her wisdom losing New York an Amazon headquarters.

1. She wasn't alone in her protest and didn't "lose New York" anything, she saved New York $3bn that was going to be given to Amazon as an incentive.
2. Amazon still moved into New York, but without the $billions in incentives just months later.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Amazon's new New York City offices: I told you so

The company had cancelled plans for a headquarters in Queens 10 months ago, after backlash from residents and politicians

www.theguardian.com

 

[calypso]

Lets hope they are going to step in and provide all the jobs and opportunities that Amazon was going to bring to CT/SA.

Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Council (GKKTC) and Observatory Civic Association

 

[Fulcrum29]

Can't say I blame them. Ancestors make lousy customers.

Greedy bunch.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Council (GKKTC) and Observatory Civic Association

Yet many whites can prove and claim documented connections to the Goringhaicona due to being the offspring of "Eva" Kratoa (Van Riebeeck's kitchen helper and later translator) and her children due to Kratoa's marriage to the Danish Pieter van Meerhof. Famous "white" South African names can claim direct descendance from her. I don't see any represented on the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Council (GKKTC).

Or is this a money spinner only using politics and supposed "First Nation" status?

 

[Stokstert]

They will change their mind when they are promised big royalties.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Hello Amazon,

I can sell you some anti-spirit machines. R10000 a device. Will solve all your problems. Inbox me.



Yours

 

[Cosmik Debris]

They will change their mind when they are promised big royalties.

The entire reason for this farce.

 

[Polymathic]

Come build it in Durban, Amazon can start their own military security division in the process

 

[morbill]

PE is ready, has a great fibre service

 

[Cosmik Debris]

PE is ready, has a great fibre service

Airport with international connections?

 

[LazyLion]

Can anybody explain to me why if this land is so sacred to these people, there is currently nothing there now?

 

[richjdavies]

Can anybody explain to me why if this land is so sacred to these people, there is currently nothing there now?

Completely abandoned at one end and the other end they were fine with their being a pretty poor 9 hole golf course and weak (think chicken nuggets and burgers) restaurant.
Only cause problems too late when they realised they weren't getting "paid". Worst of the worst here, the courts should give it more certainty rather than less...

 

[rvZA]

Welcome to SA. Someone in Amazon should be fired on the spot.