Opinion

Dire need for housing is South Africa’s biggest challenge

We are on track to exceed our targets for the delivery of houses in Cape Town for the current financial year

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Opinion | 8 March 2018

Why we woke up Brett Herron at 5am with koesiesters

People evicted from their homes cannot be dumped in Blikkiesdorp or Wolwerivier

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Opinion | 7 March 2018

Rush to drill for water threatens our future water supply

Extracting water from the Table Mountain Group aquifer threatens biodiversity and makes little difference to Day Zero

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Opinion | 28 February 2018

Want to curb abalone poaching? Treat the cause

Drone video that showed poachers being caught misses the point

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Opinion | 28 February 2018

Stop the drought conspiracy theories

Hateful messages by ideologues can harm Jewish-Muslim relations

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Opinion | 26 February 2018

How we’re fighting antimicrobial resistance in South Africa

Urgent work needed to end this public health crisis

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Opinion | 23 February 2018

Abortions: women don’t know where to go

Right to terminate pregnancy is limited by poor information

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Opinion | 29 January 2018

The terrible price of PRASA’s negligence and corruption

Officials flout the law on train safety

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Opinion | 8 December 2017

Social grants falling as share of state expenditure

Yet percentage of people living in poverty has grown

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Opinion | 4 December 2017

Failure of commuter rail is a crime against urban poor

“I am appealing to employers to empathise with staff who rely on rail to get to work”

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Opinion | 4 December 2017

Why Woodstock needs affordable housing

Affordable housing is necessary. Let’s work together to make it a success

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Opinion | 20 November 2017

How two teachers helped George Bizos become a lawyer

A story for his 90th birthday

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Opinion | 14 November 2017

Affordable housing in Cape Town: are we being fooled?

Rush to build it all in Woodstock and Salt River

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Opinion | 9 November 2017

Children with disabilities battle to get to school

Court application to force authorities to provide transport

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Opinion | 7 November 2017

Why communities have gone to court over the Mining Charter

“Nothing about us without us”

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Opinion | 2 November 2017

City takes lead on land but Province is left behind

Nothing stands in Premier Helen Zille’s way except her own political will

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Opinion | 6 October 2017