Some Bonteheuwel residents who attended a public meeting addressed by Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille last night allege she told them to "voetsek" and other insults. The meeting descended into chaos at one point, and the versions of what happened that have been published by the mayor and a residents' group contradict each other.
GroundUp Staff and Bernard Chiguvare
News | 2 October 2015
A temporary respite from violence in Masiphumelele ended today, as police and over a thousand residents clashed. Residents blocked the road to Kommetjie with burning tyres. Police used teargas, rubber bullets and arrests to disperse the protest.
Bernard Chiguvare, Masixole Feni & GroundUp staff
News | 29 September 2015
The City of Cape Town has begun collecting the rubbish that has been piling up in front of people's homes in Barcelona informal settlement.
Bernard Chiguvare
Brief | 18 September 2015
Masiphumelele residents gathered in shock today around the ashes of a young man killed in a mob justice attack in Myeza Road last night. Residents have been complaining about inadequate policing in the township, which does not have its own police station.
Bernard Chiguvare and Pasqua Heard
News | 16 September 2015
Zimbabweans living in South Africa are feeling the pinch of the steep fall of the rand against the US dollar. Because they are earning rands, they are able to send less money home.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 14 September 2015
Khulu* lived on Table Mountain for two years, eating in soup kitchens, until he found work sweeping streets as part of a programme run by the City of Cape Town and Khulisa Social Solutions. Today he has a job and owns a wendy house in Khayelitsha.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 10 September 2015
Robert Thompson has been collecting material for recycling in Cape Town since 1999. On an average day he makes R100, selling the cardboard and paper he collects to Harrington Buy Back Centre (HBBC) in the city centre.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 7 September 2015
The promise by Home Affairs minister Malusi Gigaba that rejected applications for Zimbabwean Special Permits are to be reviewed has been welcomed.
Bernard Chiguvare
Brief | 1 September 2015
Civil society groups have called for the revival of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on HIV & AIDS.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 27 August 2015