{"id":268149,"date":"2025-10-23T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/?p=268149"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:43:44","slug":"botmaskop-storm-vererger-kriminele-klagtes-ingedien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/botmaskop-storm-vererger-kriminele-klagtes-ingedien\/","title":{"rendered":"Botmaskop-storm vererger: Kriminele klagtes ingedien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die storm om die Botmaskop- ontwikkeling teen die hange van Stellenbosch wil net nie bedaar nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In die jongste wending het die CapeXit-party &#8216;n strafregtelike klagte teen die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit en die munisipale bestuurder, Geraldine Mettler, ingedien oor wat die party &#8216;n &#8220;omgewingsmisdaad&#8221; noem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ons het gevind die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit het na bewering &#8216;n ontwikkelaar op Botmaskop toegelaat om munisipale grond te betree \u2013 munisipale grond wat staatsgrond is. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221;Deur dit te doen, het die ontwikkelaar na bewering magtiging ontvang om die munisipale grond te ontwikkel,&#8221; verduidelik Leon Lourens, die hoof van die omgewingsportefeuljekomitee van die CapeXit-party.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lourens en die Kaapstadse raadslid Karl Bodin het Donderdag 16 Oktober die klagte by die Stellebosch-polisie aangemeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEES OOK: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/capexit-verkla-stellenbosch-munisipaliteit-oor-botmaskop\/\">CapeXit verkla Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit oor Botmaskop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" data-attachment-id=\"42609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/stellenbosch-interest-group-seeks-botmaskop-halt-20241121\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1624,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Werk aan die omstrede Botmaskop-ontwikkeling is vir eers gestaak. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c-1024x681.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Werk aan die omstrede Botmaskop-ontwikkeling is vir eers gestaak.\" class=\"wp-image-42609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/82cc27a96b6d4ed7bc36fc4e6cf0363c.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Werk aan die omstrede Botmaskop-ontwikkeling is vir eers gestaak. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Die party voer aan paaie, &#8216;n heining en water-infrastruktuur is op erf 187020 en die aangrensende munisipale grond, erwe 333 en 3363, aangebring. Hierdie konstruksiewerk is glo onwettig aangesien dit deel van die Kaapse Wynland Biosfeerreservaat en &#8216;n verklaarde berg-opvangsgebied is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lourens het by navraag ges\u00ea die beweerde oortredings is ernstig genoeg dat die party dit goedgedink het om &#8216;n straf- regtelike klagte aan te meld.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Die munisipaliteit is getaak om die omgewings te bestuur \u2013 veral daar waar bedreigde spesies voorkom,&#8221; s\u00ea Lourens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Daarom moet ondersoek ingestel word om te bepaal hoekom hy na bewering toegelaat het dat die ontwikkelaars die grond ontwikkel. Dit lyk asof die nodige &#8216;huiswerk&#8217; nie [behoorlik] deur die munisipaliteit gedoen is nie.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die klagte wat CapeXit teen Mettler gebring het, is ten opsigte van die Wet op Nasionale Omgewingsbestuur 107 van 1998; die Nasionale Omgewingsbestuur: Wet op Biodiversiteit (NEMBA), 2004; die Wet op die Bewaring van Landbouhulpbronne; en die Wet op Omgewingsbewaring, 1989.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By navraag het die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit ges\u00ea hy is bewus van CapeXit se optrede.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Die munisipaliteit sien dit eenvoudig as &#8216;n manier om politieke punte aan te teken,&#8221; s\u00ea Stuart Grobbelaar, &#8216;n munisipale woordvoerder. Hy s\u00ea ook geen verdere kommentaar sal verskaf word nie, aangesien die saak nou in die hof is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouwerk aan die landgoed is vroe\u00ebr vanjaar stopgesit nadat die Stellenbosch-belangegroep &#8216;n dringende aansoek voor die Kaapse hooggeregshof gebring het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEES OOK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/geen-verdere-werk-aan-botmaskop\/\">\u2018Geen verdere werk aan Botmaskop\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"588\" data-attachment-id=\"268114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/capexit-verkla-stellenbosch-munisipaliteit-oor-botmaskop\/leonlourens-cllrkarl_82581\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,689\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Leon Lourens, hoof van die omgewingsportefeuljekomitee van die Capexit-party, en Kaapstadse raadslid Karl Bodin.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Leon Lourens, hoof van die omgewingsportefeuljekomitee van die Capexit-party, en Kaapstadse raadslid Karl Bodin.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581-1024x588.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581-1024x588.jpg\" alt=\"Leon Lourens, hoof van die omgewingsportefeuljekomitee van die Capexit-party, en Kaapstadse raadslid Karl Bodin.\" class=\"wp-image-268114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LeonLourens-CllrKarl_82581.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Leon Lourens, hoof van die omgewingsportefeuljekomitee van die Capexit-party, en Kaapstadse raadslid Karl Bodin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Regter Melanie Holderness het in April &#8216;n tussentydse interduk toegestaan en die betrokke partye verbied &#8220;om enige konstruksie, bouwerk of ander werk by Botmaskop met betrekking tot die ontwikkeling van &#8216;n residensi\u00eble landgoed te onderneem of voort te gaan&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit terwyl die belangegroep se hersieningsaansoek vir die projek se omgewingsgoedkeuring oorweeg word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten tye van Holderness se uitspraak het konstruksiewerk vir munisipale dienste en ander infrastruktuur reeds plaasgevind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens die hofdokumente beskou die ontwikkelaars die landgoed van 73 eenhede as erwe wat &#8220;ten volle ontwikkel is&#8221;, met ander woorde die grond kan nie herstel word soos dit voorheen was nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die hele ontwikkeling is vir 77 eenhede goedgekeur.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op &#8216;n bespreking oor die Botmaskop-ontwikkeling by die Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees wou talle Stellenbossers steeds weet hoe die Wes-Kaapse departement van plaaslike regering, omgewingsake en\u2009ontwikkelings-beplanning goedkeuring vir die residenti\u00eble ontwikkeling uitgereik het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die gesprek is deur Kabous Meiring gelei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoewel verskeie partye vir die bespreking genader is, was slegs die plaaslike plantkundige dr. 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