Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Who's Mountain is it anyways?

Uproar as Hout Bay’s famous Sentinel peak is put on the market

One of Cape Town’s iconic mountain peaks is up for sale — but so far nobody has been brave enough to buy it.

Touted as a dream investment, Sentinel mountain, overlooking Hout Bay, is at the centre of an escalating property row involving local government officials, conservationists, and a landless community on the mountain slopes.

The 11ha sweep of indigenous fynbos and towering rock with postcard views of the Cape Peninsula is on the market for R12-million — about the price of a bungalow along the Atlantic seaboard a few kilometers away. It is owned by a close corporation, G and R Marine.

Phumeza Mgxashe of SANParks said the current landowner had purchased the property in 2005 for just R60000 — a realistic value for undeveloped conservation land. (from The Times)

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