Table Bay 'sale': the real story

Cape Town is overrated anyway. Why don't they just build a whole lot of houses all over that silly hill they have there anyway. MAybe if they knocked that hill down it would improve the weather and make the whole place a little less pompous

Amazing how things can be wrecked when politicians get involved, their power-manipulations and greedy efforts to get control of the Western Cape have even stopped to the level of criminality. Cape Town had better guard its natural legacy because it is the foundation of the Western Cape and its economic future. Now we know why the ANC and others resorted to every kind of dirty trick to gain control. Before anyone says yes to anything, go and look at Dubai and see what scale of reclamation can be initiated from one land based access point. Then look at the mountains around Fujeirah some of which have been quarried into oblivion. Very few people care about the physical environment in the Emirates; the citizens have very little appreciation for the beauty of the dunes or their own rugged mountains. The electric pylons are placed in positions on top of mountains and hills without any thought for the aesthetics. The coast of the Persian Gulf, as compared to Cape Town is dull & featureless so a few massive boardwalks and man-made promontories into the ocean do not add or detract from the beauty. If anything it’s what people from other countries come to see along with artificial ski-slopes, 5 star hotels and countless shopping malls This will never be the reason why people fly thousands of kilometres to Southern Africa; it is for our natural beauty and abundant wild animals, our pristine beaches etc. Why do you think Ratanga Junction ended up struggling after just a couple of years! Fortunately for us this is not the relatively gentle and shallow Persian Gulf; we have the 'Cape of Storms' and the gale force winds, rip tides and a deep ocean bed will in demand huge investments in infrastructure.

This typifies the politics of the ANC though and why should we have expected anything less? Obviously everything is up for sale -- or has its price-- as long as the right pockets are lined. Unfortunately this is so the world over. It is up to the feisty journos of this country to uncover these things and to bring it out into the public domain -- after all, these are OUR assets, not those of the ANC or any other party. Look how we were conned into the Green Point Stadium...

I totally agree with Andrew Lawrence: "Cape Town had better guard its natural legacy because it is the foundation of the Western Cape and its economic future." Cora Botha

Isabella! You're onto something. Keep it quiet while we buy up flats in Obs, and then when the hill is gone we'll have sea-views from the kitchen windows! Yay!
Seriously: Didn't we apologise to Ramosnet too soon? "Transnet says it is bound by the terms of sale only to try to ensure a legislative environment amenable to the proposed reclamation. "
We should not accept that as "business as usual"! Damn these corporate pigs and the officials who enable their graft!! How dare they bind "themselves" (that's us they're binding!) to try and corrupt our legislative environment?

Isabella, get a life!

I have a life. Why don't you get a name