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  • All Is Not Well On The Bloubergstrand Beachfront

    16 Mar 2021 by Carrie in Business, Cape Town, Lifestyle, South Africa
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    I’d like to turn your attention back to last year’s most famous suburban brawl between neighbours in Kyalami Estate, which had everything that a spectacle needs to amuse the public for weeks on end.

    That brawl found its way to court, but the charges were later dropped and the families involved shook hands and moved on. An anticlimactic end to the drama, but an end nonetheless.

    The same can’t be said for feuding Camps Bay neighbours Trevor Foster and Clem Kirst. After six years of back and forth, the Cape Town High Court was brought in to settle things.

    The courts have been dragged into several disputes between neighbours over the past two or three years and in most cases, it’s because what started as a disagreement, got wildly out of hand.

    The latest comes to us from Bloubergstrand, with the match playing out between Advocate Andre Bezuidenhout, who owns the restaurant On The Rocks, and Jerry Finley, of the neighbouring Pinard On Sea guesthouse.

    Image: Pinard on Sea guesthouse to the right, with On the Rocks next door, by Eddie Botha

    Once again, the conflict has lasted many years…

    According to TimesLIVE, the Cape Town High Court has been asked to, among other things, bring an end to Finley’s mission to allegedly disrupt business at On the Rocks by ‘assaulting and abusing staff’, and interfering with the delivery of stock and supplies.

    Finley, who is American, says that all of his paperwork is in order.

    Image: Jerry Finley, TimesLIVE

    Annarette Blom, MD of the On the Rocks Trust, says that On The Rocks isn’t the only business in the area getting the Finley treatment. Other businesses have allegedly been on the receiving end of his wrath as well.

    Finley claims that the court drama unfolding is simply an attempt to destroy his business and have him deported.

    Let’s check out some of the alleged incidents that Finley has supposedly been involved in over the years.

    In 2019, Blom’s affidavit states that a fight broke out when a truck trying to deliver stock to the restaurant wasn’t able to park in the loading zone because one of Pinard On Sea’s guests was in it. The truck then parked in front of the restaurant, to which Finley responded by supposedly stealing two bottles of wine.

    More recently, he has been accused of removing the keys of a parked truck. He later handed them back to the driver.

    There are more tales of petty retaliation in the full TimesLIVE article.

    The matter will be heard in the Cape Town High Court this week.

    Judges must be getting tired of this nonsense.

    Good fences make good neighbours, but in some cases, there aren’t fences high enough to stop silly wars from running their course.

    [source:timeslive]

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