Baboon Point gets heritage reprieve
By John Yeld Environment and Science Writer
The Western Cape's first proclaimed heritage site at Baboon Point in Elands Bay cannot be developed, a tribunal appointed to hear an appeal by a would-be developer has decided.
This decision, made in June, was confirmed last week by provincial Cultural Affairs, Sport and Recreation MEC Sakkie Jenner.
The heritage site, the first of its kind in the country, is considered to be one of the most important heritage conservation areas in Africa as it contains a unique, unbroken record of more than 100 000 years of human habitation.
But part of this rocky promontory at the southern end of the West Coast fishing village is privately owned, and an application for a proposed residential development there was submitted several years ago by Midnight Storm.
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