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The Cape Argus
August 28, 1974
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The Cape Argus is Cape Town's afternoon newspaper; it is fiercely
competitive with the Cape Times, the morning paper.
A charge of assault has been laid against the bulldozer
driver who was allegedly involved in a scuffle with a newspaper
reporter and Mr. Peter Ravenscroft, leader of the "Save Sandy
Bay" campaign during an inspection of the area yesterday.
This was confirmed today by Hout Bay police and Mr. Ravenscroft,
who said his lawyers were also investigating the possibility of
applying for a temporary interdict to halt bulldozer operations at
Sandy Bay until the question of the proposed development had been
resolved.
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The pure white crescent of sand
in the foreground center is Sandy Bay.
Parking is out of the frame on left; the only
access is by walking along the beach.
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The charge of assault has been laid against the bulldozer driver by
Mr. Warren Swil, a reporter of the Cape Times, who accompanied Mr.
Ravenscroft on an inspection of the area yesterday.
Mr. Swil's camera is claimed to have been damaged when the bulldozer
driver allegedly leapt from his machine and tackled the reporter after
Mr. Ravenscroft had gestured to him to stop operating.
Mr. Ravenscroft, who separated the two men, said today he believed he
also had grounds for laying a charge of assault against the bulldozer
driver but was not preferring it. He had, however, made a statement to
the Hout Bay police.
Mr. Ravenscroft claimed that bulldozers had already been operating to
within 300m of the beach.
Questioned about the operating of bulldozers while the proposed
development at Sandy Bay had not yet been approved and was still the
subject of heated controversy, Mr. H.R. van V Gie, director of local
government for the Cape Provincial Administration, said he knew of no
law which prohibited this.
"At the moment the land above Sandy Bay is private
property," he said. "I know of nothing that can prevent a
man from working on his own private property, constructing roads,
clearing brush and that sort of thing."
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