Thread by @GogoMagosha

While we are on the topic of Afrikaans being a stolen language. Do we know about what is happening in Observatory, Cape Town? Particularly surrounding indigenous ground & water?
Amazon is currently trying to build their Africa headquarters, and fill parts of the River with cement

The area itself is sacred and important, we know it is one of the places where battles were fought against colonisation. Before then, the area was a safe haven and place where our people found water, and practiced African spirituality. The area and rivers are also home to

Endangered plant and animal species. All of which will surely disappear once Amazon builds their headquarters there. The building itself will also be responsible for potential flooding in the area according to environmental specialists, as it will take place on a floodplain.

It will desecrate sacred indigenous land. Our land should not be for sale to begin with. Observatory has a long and painful history, and this will only add to it. The area itself needs to decolonised since it was a place where one of the first KhoeKhoen Dutch wars happen in 1659

It is a place that holds true the resilience of our people. The fight they put up to keep their land sacred, and to keep colonisers from using it for profit. We have to uphold that and protect Observatory from Amazon. In fact, we have to start there and entirely decolonise Obs.

Observatory apart from being a site of colonisation, was an area that become a whites only area under the #GroupAreasAct, leaving many people of colour displaced. It's time to make it accessible, to support affordable housing in the area. To remove colonial memoriams entirely

So what do we do? We can start by supporting the #LiesbeekActionCampaign who is currently at the forefront of opposing Amazon. We can go to the marches, sign petitions, shout at @CityofCT. We can donate to the @LiesbeekAction campaign: backabuddy.co.za/champion/proje….

If you are an ally, this is something you should be caring about. Apart from the implications for all of us in Cape Town and how this horrible development will affect us as individuals. You need to support it for the sake of sacred land. This is what decolonisation means.

We need to support the indigenous groups who are also affectively working to keep Amazon from building on our land. Heritage, land and justice over capitalism. We need to hold yt people accountable for keeping Obs white. We need to ensure to preserve the little bits of history

That we still have that whiteness hasn't absorbed as their own. Or whitewashed to safeguard yt fragility. Keeping Amazon from building on the land, esp around those rivers are key to preserving our history as Black people in Cape Town. And by Black, I am including coloureds.

Show up for your land.

Btw rent is already ridiculous in Observatory. Once Amazon builds there, and it becomes a hub. Prices there will go up, just like with all forms of gentrification. We can see evidence of this in other places that horrible corp decided to plant its ugly head. Fuck Amazon.