I have often wondered about the creature I would like to call “The Big Fish in the Little Pond”. These are the good folks who give their time to serve on committees of, well, for the purpose of this website, home-owners’ associations. Now in my relatively vast experience of dealing with committees, bodies corporate and [...]

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  The following witness-account was received by Robbie Ernst, friend to Dianne Sherwood, who was gunned down by her neighbour, Tony Leisegang in Marina Da Gama on 13 September 2007. It is a shocking account of the events preceding Dianne’s murder and how her death could have been prevented. We would like to take this [...]

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Your House As Seen By: Yourself… Your Buyer… Your Bank… Your Appraiser… South African Revenue Services …

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Personally, I like it – BUT IT DOES NOT CONFORM TO MARINA DA GAMA STANDARDS Eastlake Shopping Centre ExCom have informed us that the Architectural Committee of the Association have been in constant contact with the developers of the new Eastlake Shopping Centre about this blatant transgression of Marina Standards, however the new style remains. [...]

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POOP SCOOP BAGS Dog owners may soon be forced to carry poop scoop bags and put identity collars on their pets – if a new animal by-law gets the nod from the City of Cape Town. The city’s Safety and Security Portfolio Committee said this would be the first time that a City Council by-law [...]

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Applications for suburbs to be fenced off and or have access controlled by booms will be considered by the Cape Town Council. In a final draft policy on gated communities the City takes on a “cautious approach” on requests for restricted access to residential areas and new developments. This would only be considered if conventional [...]

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