Watchdog to present annual report on Thursday following findings of statistical manipulation
News | 10 October 2019
The police watchdog completes a suspiciously large number of cases on certain dates
By Daneel Knoetze and Laura Grant
News | 8 October 2019
There were over 42,000 criminal complaints against the police from April 2012 to March 2019, and only 531 successful prosecutions
News | 7 October 2019
Public records, government data, whistleblowers and victim testimony have converged to show how crimes by police officers have not been investigated properly
Feature | 7 October 2019
A nearby community is convinced it is, but test results are inconclusive
Text by Daneel Knoetze. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Science | 1 February 2019
Court order brings housing protest in Cape Town CBD to an abrupt end on Tuesday night
News | 5 December 2018
But there is a solution that can benefit the city’s residents
News | 20 September 2018
City appears to have sold property to Growthpoint for R1,880 instead of R5,000 per square metre of possible floor space
News | 13 September 2018
Government has failed to take opportunities to integrate Cape Town
Opinion | 19 January 2017
Affordable housing desperately needed
Opinion | 30 November 2016
Removal plans to be laid bare in Bromwell Street court case on 9 November
Opinion | 8 November 2016
The plight of the De Waal Drive families threatened with removal by the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements struck a chord with many Capetonians. But the same process is happening, away from public scrutiny, in other parts of the city, writes Daneel Knoetze of Ndifuna Ukwazi.
Analysis | 10 December 2015
Wolwerivier children may have to change schools after the bus service to their school at Vissershok was suspended, writes Daneel Knoetze, a researcher at Ndifuna Ukwazi, an organisation that recently published a report on conditions at Wolwerivier to which Knoetze contributed.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 4 December 2015
Lead by two of District Six’s oldest surviving evictees, communities from across the Cape Flats marched on the mayor’s offices on Wednesday. They demanded a dignified return to the city for families forcibly removed during apartheid.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 5 November 2015
It was a weekend of flaring emotions and violence at Wolwerivier relocation area. On Friday, residents protested against the City’s relocation of strangers into empty units sought by the community to alleviate the overcrowding at the settlement. Rubber bullets were fired into crowds containing mostly women and children. People were arrested and beaten when they refused to disperse.
Daneel Knoetze
Feature | 21 September 2015