Low lying areas of Siqalo on Vanguard Drive, close to Mitchell's Plain, flooded yesterday. The heavy downpours reminded Capetownians why the Mother City was named "The Cape of Storms".
Armand Hough
News | 5 June 2014
It’s cold and raining in Cape Town tonight. Ice particles formed on the ground outside the Nomzamo Community Hall in Strand where hundreds of residents, whose homes were demolished over the last two days, are sheltering.
Pharie Sefali and GroundUp staff
News | 4 June 2014
Here are two short video clips from the demolitions of people's homes that took place in Strand yesterday.
Adam Armstrong
News | 4 June 2014
Access to the Constitution and constitutional education in isiXhosa is not an an added extra—it is a constitutional right, argue Tim Hodgson and Mluleki Marongo.
Tim Hodgson and Mluleki Marongo
Opinion | 4 June 2014
Remarks made by Rowan du Preez accusing accusing activist Angy Peter and her husband of necklacing him, will be admitted into evidence, the Cape High Court ruled this morning.
Barbara Maregele
News | 4 June 2014
Hundreds of people were left homeless at Nomzamo settlement in Strand on Tuesday. Shacks were smashed down while their owners watched.
Pharie Sefali and Adam Armstrong
News | 4 June 2014
“The law is the law” said a spokesman for the South African National Road Agency Limited (SANRAL) yesterday as hundreds were left homeless in the rain after the demolition of their shacks on SANRAL-owned land near Strand.
Barbara Maregele and Adam Armstrong
Feature | 4 June 2014
For many Cape Town residents, getting clean water is a daily effort. And in some parts of the city, polluted canals run alongside people's houses.
Masixole Feni
News | 3 June 2014
Lufefe Nomjana used to bake 25 loaves of spinach bread a day and walk up to 25 kilometres to distribute them. Now he has launched the first green bakery in Khayelitsha, Espinaca Innovations.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 June 2014
The Zikhali family have always made traditional mats, but hope their youngest daughter will have other options
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