Build First, Apply Later: A R15 Million Sentence For An Unauthorised Luxury Lodge, And What It Teaches Developers About NEMA’s EIA Regime
On 16 October 2026, VEA Group Holdings Proprietary Limited, the developer of the Goats Window luxury safari lodge near Bonnievale in the Western Cape, pleaded guilty in the Bonnievale Regional Court to two environmental offences and was sentenced in terms of a plea and sentence agreement concluded with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The total […]