Concourt win for Cape Town residents facing eviction

Court tells City to provide Bromwell Street residents with temporary emergency accommodation in the inner city as close to their current homes as possible

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Law | 20 December 2024

Cape Town neighbourhood is buried in rubbish

The City will use the public works programme to employ cleaners after a contractor withdrew due to extortion threats

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Brief | 20 December 2024

Riding Cape Town’s Southern Line

Metrorail has improved from its worst days but some problems still need to be fixed

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News | 20 December 2024

In photos: Cape Town’s historic tidal pools

The pools are a magnet for family holidays

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Photo Essay | 18 December 2024

District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories

Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid

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News | 17 December 2024

Leaked report exposes abuse of lottery money paid to minstrel group

No proof that promised “minstrels museum” ever existed

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Feature | 17 December 2024

Sewage stench lingers at Milnerton Lagoon

Years after the City of Cape Town was ordered to clean it up, the estuary is still polluted

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News | 13 December 2024

Pup-up shop: new mobile clinics for dogs and cats

TEARS is rolling out vehicles that will provide both community education and veterinary services

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Brief | 12 December 2024

PRASA finally signs rail deal with City of Cape Town

The Service Level Plan gives the City oversight over annual performance plans, station revitalisation, and the introduction of more train sets

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News | 12 December 2024

“Pot” Stemmet faces charges over theft of Lottery-funded equipment

Machinery removed from “minstrel museum”

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News | 12 December 2024

Legal delays threaten survival of African Penguins, say conservation groups

Activists say that the litigation to protect the birds’ feeding grounds has been dragged out for months by the state, despite the urgency of the situation

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News | 11 December 2024

Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens

German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces

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Brief | 11 December 2024

Reading is Kwaai: high school teacher starts mobile library for learners

Nigel Mortley takes books to Cape Town schools that do not have libraries

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News | 10 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

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Brief | 9 December 2024

Here’s how an SRD beneficiary spent their R370 grant

We joined Willem Witbooi from George while shopping on Black Friday

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News | 6 December 2024

Waste collection services resume in parts of Philippi

Service was suspended for two weeks after four guards escorting workers were shot and injured

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Brief | 5 December 2024