Feature
How a lawyer used a Lottery-funded project as his personal ATM
Lesley Ramulifho paid for fancy restaurants, high-end interior decor and work on a Porsche using money meant for a drug rehab
Feature | 22 October 2019
“People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade
Part two in a series on the Pondoland dagga growers
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 14 October 2019
The trials and joys of travelling in overloaded malaichas to Zimbabwe
The minibus taxis with their trailers filled with goods offer a glimmer of hope for desperate people trying to make a living
Feature | 10 October 2019
Viewfinder: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality in SA
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
City lawyers tell activist organisation to stop helping 80-year-old man facing eviction
Eviction of Kenneth Blaine escalates ideological battle between local government and Reclaim the City
Feature | 7 October 2019
Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers
Part one in a two-part series on the Pondoland dagga growers
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 4 October 2019
Township residents occupy city old age home
CPOA says it intended to upgrade Observatory building, but new residents say they will not move
By Moira Levy and Ashraf Hendricks
Feature | 1 October 2019
Cape Town tennis academy is changing lives - and making champions
“People were hesitant to fund something like kids playing tennis when there might be so many other pressing problems in South Africa”
By Drew Wayland
Feature | 30 September 2019
Cape Town’s rivers are open streams of sewage, yet the City is not spending its budget
Water in the Black River is as dirty as untreated sewage
Feature | 26 September 2019