Articles for Matthew Hirsch

District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories

Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid

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News | 17 December 2024

Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens

German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces

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Brief | 11 December 2024

Protest opposite Holocaust and Genocide Centre in Cape Town: call for ceasefire in Gaza

The picket marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

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Brief | 9 December 2024

Last minute reprieve for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit holders

The Minister of Home Affairs has extended the ZEP to 28 November 2025

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News | 29 November 2024

Homeless man’s struggle to keep his beloved dogs

The City of Cape Town has told Clayton Smith to leave De Waal Park where he has lived for 13 years

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News | 28 November 2024

City extends public comment on sale of old Woodstock Hospital

This follows a meeting on Wednesday by Woodstock ratepayers to discuss the City’s intention to sell the site

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News | 22 November 2024

Public Works Minister: Telkom Towers police HQ a “monument to inefficient management”

A billion rand later, the department will either repurpose the complex or get rid of it

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Brief | 15 November 2024

Castle occupiers removed

The group had been living on the grounds since 2020 but the high court recently granted an order to evict them

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News | 1 November 2024

Picket held in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

The SA government is submitting evidence to the International Court of Justice to prove Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

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Brief | 28 October 2024

Africa Oil Week: Mantashe slams “foreign-funded” activists

Protests held against fossil-fuel industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg

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News | 8 October 2024

UCT vigil marks a year of war in Gaza

Protesters renew call for boycott

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Brief | 8 October 2024

Interview: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde answers questions on social housing

Winde explains why R500-million meant for housing went unspent

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Interview | 8 October 2024

Thousands in Cape Town and Johannesburg protest against Israel’s year of massacres

Calls for Israel to be isolated, as South Africa was during apartheid

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News | 5 October 2024

Housing activists welcome City’s intention to develop Mowbray golf course

For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing

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Brief | 2 October 2024

In photos: the Reclaim the City occupations

Open day at the old Woodstock Hospital and Helen Bowden Nurses Home in Cape Town

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Photo Essay | 2 October 2024

All night protest at Western Cape Premier’s residence

Housing activists are demanding that Alan Winde engage with them

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News | 30 September 2024