Oude Molen Food Garden Village

07/09/2026

Not sure what to do on Heritage day !

Attendees of this first workshop will receive discount vouchers for selected follow-up workshops and ongoing consultancy opportunities.

📅 Thursday, 24 September 2026 — Heritage Day
⏰ 10AM–12PM
📍 OM Garden, Oude Molen
🌿 Facilitated by Cindy Knowles

# # 🌿 INDIGENOUS SPRING WELLNESS TREASURES 🌿

# # # A WARA Eco Green Roadshow × Something Khoi Collaboration

Honouring Indigenous Heritage • Traditional Knowledge • Spring Wellness

Step into spring and discover the living treasures of the Cape landscape. 🌱🌼

Join weRagency Eco Green Roadshow and Something Khoi for a hands-on journey into indigenous fynbos and traditional herbal knowledge—exploring plants such as **buchu, rooibos, wild dagga, wilde als, and other indigenous botanical treasures.

Learn how these plants have been valued within traditional knowledge systems, discover responsible and sustainable ways of connecting with our natural heritage, and explore how plants can inspire everyday wellness practices.

# # # 🌿 YOU'LL EXPERIENCE

✨ Indigenous fynbos & traditional herbs
✨ Traditional uses and cultural heritage
✨ Responsible foraging & plant stewardship
✨ Creating your own Spring Wellness Treasure Chest at home
✨ Hands-on botanical activities in the garden
✨ Stories, knowledge-sharing and connection to nature
✨ Celebrating Heritage Day through indigenous knowledge

# # # 💚 A SPECIAL FIRST EDITION — FREE TO ATTEND

This inaugural workshop is being offered at no cost as part of the wider WARA Eco Green Roadshow—a growing series of practical workshops exploring sustainability, indigenous knowledge, wellness, food, water, waste and resilient living.

Come reconnect with the plants beneath our feet, the knowledge carried through generations, and the possibilities of a greener future.

Rooted in Tradition. Guided by Nature. Growing Wellness Together. 🌿

15/08/2026

Over the last few months - The om garden has been busy
150 Rondbosch boys did community service ,
Pinelands 1st Scouts group and now we are half way through the program for ladies for sustainable gardening .
Lots of exciting things on the cards over the next few months so keep those eyes peeled!

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15/08/2026

Scout getting ready for his lesson

05/08/2026

its getting busy now -- get those seeds going

19/07/2026

What a day. Makhosi
2nd session of our garden programme completed.
Garden design n layouts and implementation. Then we dedicated our 2nd half of our program to Madiba. A cake was made , eaten and then placards painted to be placed around the garden next time. 😀

18/07/2026

Setting up for our 2nd session in organic A- Z gardening.
Expecting 20 wonderful ladies to be ready n eager to learn.
To end off we will do 67 minutes of positive affirmations board art to place in the om Garden

08/07/2026

seed planting guide for July

27/06/2026

Today at the om garden

23/06/2026

The good news : On 10 June, Heritage Western Cape upheld their decision under appeal from WC Government/Infrastructure in that the Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) for proposed development is not approved.
The next challenge : While the HIA appeal was in process, Western Cape officials, eager to develop, lost no time in applying pressure from another angle, through a rezoning application.
If this application goes through, there is a strong likelihood that Oude Molen could become the next "Amazon/Riverlands" - this neighbouring land is owned by property developers who continue to exploit and devastate the land for profit.
Oude Molen is one of the few remaining heritage-rich areas, steeped in First Nation culture, and the site of biodiverse and environmentally sensitive land which is home to endangered and at-risk species in the Western Cape.
PLEASE USE YOUR VOICE AND YOUR POWER
Please complete the Objection form in link below, and lodge your objection,
BY 30 June to : [email protected]
Objection form :
https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Forms%2c%20notices%2c%20tariffs%20and%20lists/MPBL-LUM18_Comment_Objection_Form.pdf
You can view the full detail of the rezoning application at :
https://www.capetown.gov.za/City-Connect/Have-your-say/Land-use-applications/1500155417

Sharing a City of Cape Town Page...

23/06/2026

https://www.facebook.com/DearSouthAfricaRH/posts/the-oude-molen-bait-and-switch-leaked-investor-documents-misleading-visuals-and-/1449966783828546/

THE OUDE MOLEN BAIT-AND-SWITCH: Leaked investor documents, misleading visuals, and overridden heritage laws.

The City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Government are racing ahead with a massive, high-density five-storey redevelopment of the 13-hectare, publicly owned Oude Molen Precinct. But a look behind the town-planning curtain reveals shocking procedural and legal flaws that demand our immediate intervention.

Here is what is actually going on:

❌ Ignored Statutory Rulings: On 10 June 2026, Heritage Western Cape's Appeals Committee officially dismissed the government's appeal and rejected their Heritage Impact Assessment for breaking the law. Planning regulations state that heritage clearance MUST be finalized before rezoning occurs—yet authorities are pushing the land-use vote through anyway.

📉 The Visual Trap: The idealised drawings shown to the public look low-density. However, the legal "Development Framework" fixes sweeping maximum parameters for height and bulk that aren't depicted in those concepts. Once approved, all future design phases are legally constrained within those massive maximum limits. We are being shown an attractive concept but legally signing off on severe, maximum density blocks with little room for community influence later.

📁 Proof of Predetermination: Official documents prove this public window is a tick-box exercise. In November 2025, a provincial one-pager handed to global financiers at the Western Cape Investment Summit explicitly claimed heritage authorization was "completed by July 2025" and the site was completely "de-risked with secured development rights". Marketing un-obtained rights to investors while public windows are still open proves the decision was made long ago.

✋Permanent eviction of a 30-year-old ecosystem of public services operating on the land at zero cost to the state—including the Robin Trust (care for Alzheimer's/dementia), therapeutic stables for disabled children, and holistic schools.

👉 YOUR VOICE IS A LEGAL FORCE: Traditional petitions are logged as just one single collective signature by municipal tribunals whereas the DearSouth Africa platform enforces an individual model. Your choices populate a targeted town-planning objection sent directly to the City's Land Use Directorate, legally forcing them to read and record your comment.

The portal is open now. Don't sit on the sidelines while public assets are compromised.

🔗 HAVE YOUR SAY RIGHT NOW 👉 https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/oude-molen/
⏳ DEADLINE: Tuesday, 30 June 2026

23/06/2026