March 17, 2008 Dear Ms Koetsier Your Letter of 2 February 2008 – To the Executive Committee of the Marina Da Gama Association We refer to the above letter relating to a meeting held on 2 February 2008 between yourself with your brother and Toni Joubert, Elaine Meyer and Bob Craske. The open items of [...]

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Early this morning I received a phone-call from an exited resident telling me that she received a letter from the South African Human Rights Commission inviting her to a meeting to mediate the matter between the Association and the complainants (objectors). Lo and behold, later this afternoon, I also received such a letter. It has [...]

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Let’s face it, the Prince George Drive section running along Marina da Gama is a mess and just downright dangerous. For the Marina residents, the notorious Oudevlei Road intersection is a major sore point and residents of San Marina and Uitsig have been complaining for years that this intersection is lethal. Time and again, Council [...]

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When one gets bad service from a restaurant you can just get up and leave. Unfortunately in the Marina da Gama we cannot simply walk away from sloppy mismanagement and Nazi-style Association leadership. To get away from this, we would have to sell our homes. It would seem as if the Marina Management is under [...]

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The Chairman of the Marina Da Gama Association seems to think he has a moll in the office. Maybe he is confusing the Association with the FBI, or the Secret Service?

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Anita wrote LEGALITY OF THE ASSOCIATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION It seems as if ExCom are currently trying to engage the objectors in a participation process in terms of the Council resolution. We welcome any effort by the Executive Committee to resolve issues and engage with the objectors. ExCom must however do this officially, as ExCom [...]

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The following article was placed in the February Marina News. In my opinion, it is a blatant attempt at blackmail. To what depths will this Executive Committee sink to get the security scheme off the ground? They admit that the top-down approach did not work. It seems like the bottom-up approach is also not working. [...]

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JT wrote On 20 February, the Marina da Gama Association issued an e-mail notice to those members on its e-mail list (half the membership if you’re lucky) advising of Spar’s plan to open a bottle store and how the Marina da Gama Association will not act on behalf of its members in either supporting or [...]

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