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Illegal Towers
10
Oct

Victory in fight against cell mast

October 10, 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019 By Lillian Amos Heathfield residents have notched up a victory in their ongoing fight to stop the rapid increase of cell masts in the southern suburbs. After three years of petitioning and advocating against the erection of a mast in Fourth Road in Heathfield, residents were relieved when the Supreme Court...
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02
Oct

CITY OF CAPE TOWN 1 OCTOBER 2019 MEDIA RELEASE City victorious in cellphone mast case against Telkom

October 2, 2019
The Supreme Court of Appeal has, in a unanimous judgment, affirmed the City of Cape Town’s constitutional mandate to regulate and control the use of land within its municipal borders. The judgment sets an important precedent that all telecommunications service providers, inclusive of state-owned Telkom, must obtain the City’s approval prior to installing cellphone masts...
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29
Sep

Cape Town, South Africa: Illegal Heathfield Mast – Activists Fought Injustice

September 29, 2019
In a Supreme Court judgement of the 25th of September 2019 Telkom lost its Appeal. For activists it brings to close a long and hard battle. This case is about a community – all of us – standing together to fight injustice: Image: Heathfield,  4th Avenue, where families reported that their children regularly become ill....
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14
Jul

“Mysterious” cell tower erected on Western Cape’s second-highest mountain

July 14, 2019
Source: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/313297-mysterious-cell-tower-erected-on-western-capes-second-highest-mountain.html?source=newsletter A base station has been erected on Matroosberg, the Western Cape’s second-highest mountain, according to a report in the Sunday Times. The report stated that the structure is made from concrete, will hold an 8-metre mast, and that authorities have no definitive answer as to how it got there. CapeNature officials, who are responsible for...
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