Social housing residents demand option to buy homes
Evicted people, informal settlement residents and backyarders march through city centre
News | 5 July 2018
Emergency housing for Hermanus community
But unclear if it will be enough to placate protesters
News | 5 July 2018
Commuters hit by taxi fare hike
“It makes escaping poverty so much harder because you continuously have to keep grinding and struggle to keep your family afloat”
News | 4 July 2018
DA and EFF at odds over Brakpan land occupation
Occupiers want ward councillor to address them in person
News | 4 July 2018
Cape Town launches Safe Space for homeless people
Facility will provide overnight shelter for up to 230 homeless people
By Zakwani Abeidabeeku Zulualabiade
Brief | 4 July 2018
How a woman secures her shack when it rains
Masiphumelele’s informal settlement is built on a wetland and regularly floods
News | 4 July 2018
Injured woman has Home Affairs nightmare
Long queues and rude officials have made it extremely difficult for Kundji Tembo to renew her asylum papers
News | 4 July 2018
Policeman accused of beating women because they are lesbian
Officer due to appear in court on 17 July
Brief | 3 July 2018
Western Cape opposes national government’s mining rights approval
Department of Mineral Resources approved Australian company’s application to do mineral prospecting on northern bank of Olifants River estuary
By John Yeld
News | 3 July 2018