SEE | New luxury Waterfront hotel compared to ‘Soviet prison’ – and has a rocky past

News24 Business8 November 2026 at 19:01

A new luxury Waterfront hotel, which was likened in one viral post to the love child of a Soviet prison and 1980s new-money Mossel Bay, divided more than just public opinion. The design was initially denied heritage approval before a tribunal gave it the green light.
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