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Im looking at a moving the holiday home from the Cape Winelands to somewhere nearby the ocean and Hout Bay seems as if it's the place. One problem though, there is a shack township called Imizamo Yethu directly facing my intended purchase property, the township about 2=3km away (as the crow fly's), but really in your face. I really like it, but this is a concern considering the valuations, I want to ask before I ask the architects if they can design the home in a way that only keeps the ocean and mountain view only. I thought that I had a gem only yesterday I saw the eyesore the shacks are from the erven.

1. Is crime a problem?
2. Are the vistas an eyesore?
3. What is the communities feelings about the township?
4. Is they any medium or long term plans to relocate the people to a better location?

Is there any other properties still available with views of both the mountains and ocean available, pref. in an estate in Hout Bay, I searched and I cant seem to find an estate but I found a few ervens outside estates? Im open to any areas in the peninsula no furthure than Hout Bay, well priced.
 
TBH why not just air bnb, go where you want and no hassle.

There are other way more "secure" investment opportunities than a holiday home.
 
Rather spend "a bit" more :ROFL: and buy in Llandudno.
At least you will be able to get out and away from protests when tyres are burned in the main roads - unless you have a boat.

I don't see the situation improving, it's only downhill as it has been for the last 20 years.

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Unequal Scenes - Hout Bay / Imizamo Yethu

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Yeah nope Hout Bay is a sht storm of note and considering all the free land available the shack city is going no where but onwards and upwards.

Actually the whole of Cape Town is heading that way, covid restrictions was the straw that broke the camels back and informal settlements have exploded everywhere including next to all the decent areas all over and they now grow unabated.

I hope someone high up at COCT finally gets the message that it’s a problem kid gloves won’t fix and takes some real action.

But they have a fight on their hands, you should see how brain dead the Karen’s in my community WhatsApp groups are, they’ll bend over backwards to keep squatters in the neighbourhood. I don’t see the logic, a minuscule minority of degenerates(a small percentage who may genuinely just have fallen on hard times, the rest all reaping what they have sown) being allowed to bring down the whole show for the rest of the hard working folk of Cape Town.
 
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Calkem said:
1. Is crime a problem?
2. Are the vistas an eyesore?
3. What is the communities feelings about the township?
4. Is they any medium or long term plans to relocate the people to a better location?
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1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. They remain silent otherwise the EFF would descend on Hout Bay and call them racists.
4. No idea but I doubt it.

You can thank the former NP and later founder member of the DA MP Jannie Momberg who lived on a wine farm somewhere near you that swopped over to the ANC when he saw 1994 coming up.

He bussed people in from the Eastern Cape on a one way ticket with promises of houses and jobs and then dumped them in a swamp and on a fire prone hillside nobody had ever built on in 300 years because of those problems and founded Masiphumelele and Izamu Yetho to boost ANC voting numbers in the Peninsula. The middle class residents of those areas suddenly had a new reality to deal with and previously unfenced properties suddenly became walled forts.

When he died in 2011 from a heart attack in Longbeach mall near Fish Hoek, his family were shocked by the hatred of the community expressed on social media. They thought he was well loved.

I notice that SA History Online omits him as the opportunistic founder of the squatter camps and never says that he never lived in the area.

Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. He later studied at Stellenbosch University where he is reputed to have been a ladies’ man, a socialite and-rebel. It is believed that as a young man he befriended B. J. Vorster’s daughter, thereby developing a close relationship with the party’s Head. As a result of being a motor-mouth, Momberg was then nicknamed “Jan Bek”.

Jannie “Jan Bek” Momberg | South African History Online

www.sahistory.org.za www.sahistory.org.za
 
also the traffic is a disaster, Llandudno is a bit better and closer to town Camps Bay, however the amount of muppets here constantly creates traffic headaches
For a bit cheaper you can head to Misty Cliffs / Scarborough, it's bit further down the coast
 
chuckles_the_cnt said:
also the traffic is a disaster, Llandudno is a bit better and closer to town Camps Bay, however the amount of muppets here constantly creates traffic headaches
For a bit cheaper you can head to Misty Cliffs / Scarborough, it's bit further down the coast
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Scarborough? Cheaper? You must be kidding me. I live there and 500m2 plots here go for around R4 million, if you can find one for sale. That's before you've even put a single brick in the ground. Ever since Hout Bay because a shithole, Kommetjie, Scarborough, Simons Town and Misty Cliffs have all become way more expensive.
 
deweyzeph said:
Scarborough? Cheaper? You must be kidding me. I live there and 500m2 plots here go for around R4 million. That's before you've even put a single brick in the ground. Ever since Hout Bay because a shithole, Kommetjie, Scarborough, Simons Town and Misty Cliffs have all become way more expensive.
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cheaper than llandudno and camps bay, but yeah you have masi and o/view to get there
 
Calkem said:
Is there any other properties still available with views of both the mountains and ocean available, pref. in an estate in Hout Bay, I searched and I cant seem to find an estate but I found a few ervens outside estates? Im open to any areas in the peninsula no furthure than Hout Bay, well priced.
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Not a chance I would ever live in Hout Bay but below property ticks some boxes:
https://www.property24.com/for-sale/scott-estate/hout-bay/western-cape/10055/108558651

Why specifically the peninsula? Places further down the coast like Rooi Els and Bettys Bay are much better holiday locations IMO.
 
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I have a lot of friends who have properties and live in Hout Bay. It's a lovely part of Cape Town.
 
dualmeister said:
A mate is a paramedic. The ambulances do not even go into Imizamo Yethu without a police escort anymore.
Any sometimes not even then.
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It's ironic that there's a massive police station right at the entrance to Imizamo Yethu and it's probably one of the most dangerous areas in Hout Bay to walk past as a pedestrian.
 
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