{"id":35727,"date":"2015-10-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/35727\/cambridge-academy-nought-but-a-pipedream\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T07:56:47","slug":"cambridge-academy-nought-but-a-pipedream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/12\/cambridge-academy-nought-but-a-pipedream\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Academy nought but a pipedream"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sudden decision will have major financial implications for Cambridge who will now have to pay market value for the piece of land between Midwater and Soutpansberg Road.<\/p>\n

Council has resolved during last Thursday’s sitting, that a price of R34,5 million will have to be settled by Cambridge.<\/p>\n

According to Acting Municipal Manager, Mr Mandla Mnguni, the municipality is definitely not against the establishment of an English-medium school, though Cambridge is a private institution with sky high enrollment and annual school fees, totalling more than R40 000 per year for the senior phase.<\/p>\n

“It is clear to council that the school can afford to settle at market value,” Mr Mnguni said.<\/p>\n

The decision to rescind the donation of land to Cambridge to establish the school, has not been communicated to the eMalahleni based private school.<\/p>\n

“It will take five working days for the resolution to be communicated, and coupled with the school holiday, perhaps longer,” Mr Mnguni said.<\/p>\n

Cambridge will be responsible for all services connections, and building plans will have to be approved by council, before development commences.<\/p>\n

Registration, transfer, town planning, rezoning, geo-technical and all legal costs, will also have to be settled by Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Cambridge will also be responsible for the subdivision of the Remainder of Erf 2415, to exclude the Kruger Dam waterworks from the property.<\/p>\n

All damages to municipal services, like water and power lines, will also have to be fixed by Cambridge.<\/p>\n

If Cambridge fail to make the purchase within 90-days, the property will be sold off in a public bidding process.<\/p>\n

The school could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

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Council has decided not to donate the Aerorand land to Cambridge Academy to establish a much needed English-medium school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":35728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}