Amazon Headquarter Scandal: Court Rules Man Fake Being a Representative of Indigenous People

• A man was found to be fraudulently representing an indigenous group to prevent a development from being constructed
• The Western Cape High Court found that Tauriq Jenkins pretended to have been a representative of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council
• Despite the antics, the multibillion-rand development of Amazon’s African headquarters is expected to be completed in 2023

CAPE TOWN - A man who claimed to represent an indigenous group was found to have been a fraud by the Western Cape High Court.

Tauriq Jenkins pretended to have been a representative of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council to prevent the multibillion-rand development of Amazon’s African headquarters in Cape Town.

Judge Elizabeth Baartman said Jenkins was determined to stop the development at all costs. Following his and the Observatory Civic Association’s (OCA) antics, the construction company halted building in March and claimed it lost about R22 million in a month.

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The OCA and Jenkins submitted an appeal against the judgment against them, according to TimesLIVE. Baartman said that Jenkins fabricated a constitution to suit his objective while betraying the trust others put in him.

The OCA must pay the legal costs for the appellants in the initial court case and the appeal. The project will continue, and work is expected to be completed in November 2023.

The Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust believes the development will celebrate the intangible heritage associated with the broader area. The construction will also include developer-subsidised inclusive housing, publicly accessible green spaces and thousands of job opportunities, the Daily Maverick reported.

Stolen tractor found at taxi rank construction site that Panyaza Lesufi handed over to Gautrain

Briefly News also reported that a day after Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi handed over the construction of a Vereeniging taxi rank to Gautrain, an allegedly stolen tractor was found working on the site.

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Lesufi was joined by Social Development MEC Mbali Hlope, Sedibeng District Mayor Lerato Maloka and Efumuleni Local Municipality Mayor Sipho Radebe when he handed the project over on Wednesday, 23 November. By Thursday afternoon, 24 November, police had recovered the stolen tractor from the construction site.

According to the Daily Sun, Vereeniging police spokesperson Captain Fikile Funda said police intelligence received a tip that the tractor was at the construction site. Upon investigation, police found that the vehicle’s chassis number had been tampered with and didn’t have registration plates.

Source: Briefly News