It’s cold and raining in Cape Town tonight. Ice particles formed on the ground outside the Nomzamo Community Hall in Strand where hundreds of residents, whose homes were demolished over the last two days, are sheltering.
Pharie Sefali and GroundUp staff
News | 4 June 2014
Here are two short video clips from the demolitions of people's homes that took place in Strand yesterday.
Adam Armstrong
News | 4 June 2014
Remarks made by Rowan du Preez accusing accusing activist Angy Peter and her husband of necklacing him, will be admitted into evidence, the Cape High Court ruled this morning.
Barbara Maregele
News | 4 June 2014
Hundreds of people were left homeless at Nomzamo settlement in Strand on Tuesday. Shacks were smashed down while their owners watched.
Pharie Sefali and Adam Armstrong
News | 4 June 2014
For many Cape Town residents, getting clean water is a daily effort. And in some parts of the city, polluted canals run alongside people's houses.
Masixole Feni
News | 3 June 2014
Lufefe Nomjana used to bake 25 loaves of spinach bread a day and walk up to 25 kilometres to distribute them. Now he has launched the first green bakery in Khayelitsha, Espinaca Innovations.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 June 2014
Zimbabwean writer Novuyo Rose Tshuma has set her first collection of short stories in Bulawayo and Johannesburg.
Joshua Masherow
News | 3 June 2014
For many Cape Town residents, getting clean water is a daily effort. And in some parts of the city, polluted canals run alongside people's houses.
Masixole Feni
News | 3 June 2014
A Khayelitsha mother fears her children’s health is at risk as the sewage from the newly installed toilets metres from her home constantly overflows into her yard.
Barbara Maregele
News | 2 June 2014