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As seen in: Daily Maverick, CNN, MSN South Africa, Business 2 Community, TimesLIVE, AllAfrica, The Namibian, Dissident Voice
Senior journalist @ Daily Maverick. Author: Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes (2016); Ways of Staying (2010).
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Watch – Cape Town Planning Tribunal agreed with officials almost every time

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By Kevin Bloom Verified
| thefuse.co.za
Over thirteen months, Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal ruled on 1,328 land-use and development cases. Not one was recorded as an explicit departure from city planners’ recommendations. The pattern surfaced in a fight over two data centres proposed near Cape Town International Airport, where objectors warned of a 174-megawatt draw on the grid and 4.4 billion litres of water a year, in communities that already struggle to pay municipal bills.
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Watch – Cape Town Planning Tribunal agreed with officials almost every time

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By Kevin Bloom Verified
| Daily Maverick Verified
Over thirteen months, Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal ruled on 1,328 land-use and development cases. Not one was recorded as an explicit departure from city planners’ recommendations. The pattern surfaced in a fight over two data centres proposed near Cape Town International Airport, where objectors warned of a 174-megawatt draw on the grid and 4.4 billion litres of water a year, in communities that already struggle to pay municipal bills.
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Testing the teeth of CT’s planning tribunal: Penalties, objections and refusals in 1,328 rulings

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By Kevin Bloom Verified
| Daily Maverick Verified
RUBBER-STAMPED (PART 2) For more than three years, in the Blaauwberg district of Cape Town, ratepayers have been sounding the alarm on the proliferation of illegal and structurally unsafe buildings. In this second part of Daily Maverick’s analysis of all Municipal Planning Tribunal rulings from 1 July 2025 to 31 July 2026, we look at what the data say about the efficacy of administrative penalties. We also look at the numbers on objections, conflicts of interest and refusals.
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