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Royal Natal Yacht Club threatened
6 Oct 2011
The eThekwini municipality has threatened to cancel the lease of the Royal Natal Yacht Club even though the lease has another 20 years to run. The municipality has applied to the Durban High Court to put the 150-year-old club onto a month-by-month lease, claiming that this is important for "development and planning".
The Royal Natal Yacht Club is opposing the application and says the city has failed to explain why it is necessary to put water sports clubs out of business. It is referring to another legal battle another litigation for water sport enthusiasts at Point.
RNYC says in its opposing papers that the institutions that use the yacht mole will be in a precarious position of tenancy, threatening their own security and development.
According to the city's legal adviser, Samantha Mahadeo, the club's initial leases were signed in 1990 and were to run for five years at a nominal rental of R100 a year.
She says the city gave the RNYC notice of termination of its leases in December 2008 and these leases were to expire in 2009, with occupation on a month-to-month basis after that.
Meanwhile the RNYC says that its lease was signed in 1996 for a period of 30 years. These agreements are being disputed by the council because it says they were never signed and no written approval was granted.
About Paddy Hartdegen
Paddy Hartdegen has been working as a journalist and writer for the past 40 years since his first article was published in the Sunday Tribune when he was just 16-years-old. He has written 13 books, edited a plethora of business-to-business publications and written for most of the major newspapers in South Africa.
