Leslie London is the Chairperson of the Observatory Residents Association and has been living in Observatory for the past 24 years.
He works as a professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
His research focuses on Environmental and Occupational Health, and the importance of Human Rights for Public Health Policy. Leslie helped to found the network Civic Action for Public Participation with other activists across Cape Town.

Tauriq Jenkins is a Convenor of the Anti-Repression Working Group of the C19 People’s Coalition and an accredited monitor for the South African Human Rights Commission. As chair of the AIXARRA Restorative Justice Forum, based at the Centre for African Studies University of Cape Town, he convenes the commissions on Sacred Human Remains, Land and C19. He is the High Commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Indigenous Council and is involved in various civic, heritage and environmental structures including the Observatory Civic Association, Two Rivers Urban Park Association, and the Civic for Action in Public Participation. He holds an MFA, School of the Arts, Columbia University, and an alumnus of the International Fellows Program, School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University.