JOBSERVATORY
Heritage Preservation needs Work! Across the world, the interpretation of Heritage, tangible or intangible, has contrasting narratives attached to it, grounded in differing historical perspectives. JOBSERVATORY Heritage Preservation needs Work!Across the world, the interpretation of Heritage, tangible or intangible, has contrasting narratives attached to it, grounded in differing historical perspectives. By definition, Heritage is the preservation […]
THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY
“Tourism is too important a resource to be left to the tourism professionals. Tourism needs to be part of a community mobilisation strategy that can reinvent the role of heritage so that it serves the needs of everyone.” Bob McNulty, President, Partners for Livable Communities Heritage Tourism &The Experience Economy By Allan McDonald “Tourism is […]
HEY OBS! MEET THE NEIGHBOURS!
Is this the vision OCA (Observatory Civic Association) has for the future of the River Club land? Surely they must know, as they rally your current neighbours to their clarion call They’re moving in if you move Amazon out. HEY OBS! MEET THE NEIGHBOURS! Is this the vision OCA (Observatory Civic Association) has for the […]
NO BS
If you’ve been following the narrative issued by OCA, and by Tauriq Jenkins and Leslie London specifically, your BS Meter should now be peaking way into the red.And you should be worried. They purport to represent the interests of the Cape’s First Observatory Civic Association are full of it OBSERVATORY If you’ve been following the […]
EXPOSED! ATTEMPTED CAPTURE OF THE KHOI NATION
EXPOSED! ATTEMPTED CAPTURE OF THE KHOI NATION By Allan McDonald The attempts to shut down the River Club development by Tauriq Jenkins, unconstitutionally appointed Supreme High Commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council (GKKITC), and Leslie London of the Observatory Civic Association (OCA), have been revealed as spurious and deceitful at best, fraudulent […]
OBSERVASTORY!
You couldn’t make this stuff up; but they did! A story built on lies, deception and promises impossible to keep.Attempts to shut down the River Club development by Tauriq Jenkins and Leslie London of the Observatory Civic Association (OCA) Observatory Civic Association presents OBSERVASTORY! A tale of deception, greed and hubris. You couldn’t make this stuff […]
ROBSERVATORY
A few individuals, delinquently posturing as representative of the views and opinions of all Observatory residents and home owners, have created a blindingly deceptive narrative, backed by obscure funding.They will also have you believe that they represent the wishes of the First Nations people of the Cape. The stunning OCA deception ROBSERVATORY! Robbing our future […]
LONDON’S CALLING
Leslie London is a man who had a calling. After all, the impressive letters after his name aren’t bestowed on anyone with a passing fancy for something: MBChB MMed MD Cape Town BSc(Med)(Hons) Stell DOH Witwatersrand FCPHM SA. LONDON’S CALLING How good men make bad calls. Leslie London is a man who had a calling. […]
MEET TAURIQ
The frontman of OCA (Observatory Civic Association) and self-annointed spokesman for the Cape First Nations people.This is the name, the voice and the face behind the move to shut down the River Club development. OBSERVATORY Meet Tauriq Jenkins The frontman of OCA (Observatory Civic Association) and self-annointed spokesman for the Cape First Nations people.This is […]
7 GENERATIONS
The Seventh Generation Principle is an Indigenous Concept: “Think of the 7th generation coming after you in your words, work and actions, and to remember the seventh generation who came before you”This same concept is shared among First Nations cultures around the world; A society becomes great when old men plant trees whose shade they […]