More high density development on the cards near Fish Hoek

Last year we wrote about the City of Cape Town’s Draft Spatial Development Framework for the Deep South of Cape Town which includes, among other items, the number “10 000 units”.

Well the immoral momentum to replace the environment with high-density development continues. However this time it’s in Capri, a small suburb near Fish Hoek. Currently there is a proposed 32-unit residential development on a piece of land known as Capri Common (Erf 15300). In response the Sunnydale Ratepayers’ Association (SRA) has lodged a formal objection, calling for the land to be declared a No-Go area and managed for conservation, rehabilitation, and long-term protection.

Erf 15300 is classified as a Critical Biodiversity Area (CBA) 1a, the highest conservation category under the Western Cape Biodiversity Spatial Plan. Land in this category is meant to be kept in a natural or near-natural state, with further habitat loss avoided. The site supports Critically Endangered Hangklip Sand Fynbos, listed under the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEMBA). Despite this status, the proposed development would allow 32 dwelling units on the land. Click HERE to learn more.

We are seeing the replacement of the environment with technology. Last year a book was published, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth, in which he show that people, many of whom we have voted into office (and some not), are working to replace God, the environment, and our distinct and wonderful traditions, cultures, and ethnicities with technology. Property development is part and parcel of this drive and normally it involves high density development. This is wicked and immoral of the highest order. This plan will also end in death and destruction, just as it did in Stalin’s Soviet Russia and Mao’s China.

In Cape Town we see this clearly in the constant lust to develop land in the name of some supposed “justice”, “integration”, or other coded flower word, when in reality it is about money and greed. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. We have a moral obligation to oppose the replacement of the environment with technology and this involves two things. We may ultimate lose, but at least we stood out ground.