Amazon’s Africa Flagship Campus Gets the Go-Ahead From Court
- Tribe attempting to stop the building couldn’t prove ‘harm’
- Legal battles around building on the site have been ongoing
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The construction of Amazon.com Inc.’s planned offices in Cape Town should be allowed to go ahead, according to a South African court, in a setback for the indigenous people attempting to stop the development.
The ruling from the Western Cape High Court said that those opposing the project could not “demonstrate that the right to heritage is at risk of suffering any harm,” while adding that the cultural value of the site is undisputed. “On the contrary, the papers indicated that the development might enhance the land’s resources having regard to the degraded state of the site when the authorizations were granted.”