Articles for Matthew Hirsch
City to decide on objections to six-storey Bo-Kaap hotel
Residents are opposed to the development overshadowing the oldest mosque in the country
News | 22 January 2025
District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories
Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid
News | 17 December 2024
Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens
German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces
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
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
By Matthew Hirsch and Joseph Chirume
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
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
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
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
Text by Matthew Hirsch. Photos by David Harrison.
News | 1 November 2024