Articles for Matthew Hirsch

Lives of poor and working class people upended by violent taxi strike

“Ordinary people like me are the ones suffering” says patient as clinic services impacted by taxi strike

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News | 4 August 2023

MyCiTi the focus of Cape Town’s new public transport business plan

A 15-year public transport plan passed by Council focuses on road-based public transport in the face of collapsed rail system

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News | 3 August 2023

Heritage approval granted for social housing development at old Woodstock hospital

The City of Cape Town has welcomed heritage approval to proceed with its social housing plans, but the hospital is already occupied

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News | 1 August 2023

UK’s Jim Skea elected chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The IPCC is one of the most important bodies tackling climate change

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Brief | 27 July 2023

Western Cape government to decide on homeless shelter in District Six

Public submission process has closed

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Brief | 26 July 2023

District Six residents oppose homeless shelter on historic site

Protesters want former Tafelberg crèche to be used for a community centre instead

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News | 17 July 2023

Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer

Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead

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News | 5 July 2023

Minister promises new lease of life for Hout Bay harbour

Fishers to get their fishing rights and a new production and packaging facility

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News | 28 June 2023

South African scientist hopes to head world’s most important climate change body

Debra Roberts is running for the position of chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Interview | 19 June 2023

Community gardens bloom from vacant lots in Salt River

Embarrassed by the rubbish amidst Salt River’s striking street art, a tour guide decided to do something about it

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News | 15 June 2023

Exhibition imagines an alternative future for an inclusive Cape Town

Residents of Cissie Gool House have co-designed an exhibit at the Cape Institute for Architecture

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Brief | 8 June 2023

Bo-Kaap and District Six plans passed despite public participation concerns

DA councillors vote plans through but residents say they haven’t had time to study them.

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News | 1 June 2023

Having withstood apartheid removals, District Six families fight eviction by new owner

Original District Six cottages now face the threat of developer’s bulldozers

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News | 22 May 2023

First glimpse of plans for Salt River and Woodstock

Some of the concerns raised at the meeting on Saturday were about green spaces, transport, and housing

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News | 15 May 2023