The daily struggle of living in a wheelchair in a shack
“The simplest things, like brushing your teeth, require work”
News | 14 December 2018
New social grant for families
Deadline approaches for key amendments to foster care grants
By Kim Reynolds
News | 14 December 2018
Backyarders complain of City’s incomplete toilet installation
“What’s the use – they give a toilet but it doesn’t work,” says Parkwood resident
News | 14 December 2018
City gives green light to Salt River social housing project
Development would set a precedent for social housing near Cape Town’s city centre
By Aidan Jones
News | 14 December 2018
Slight improvement in backlog at Western Cape High Court
But 16 judgments have been outstanding for at least six months
By Kim Reynolds
Law | 13 December 2018
More than half the plots earmarked for backyarders in Cape Town’s southern suburbs are on wetlands
Residents sceptical at briefing by project managers
News | 12 December 2018
We hope it won’t just be a decoration, says resident as temporary Nyanga police station opened
Minister silent on permanent station promised for 2023
News | 12 December 2018
Shack dwellers lose their Christmas savings in Khayelitsha fire
Cash, documents, clothes and furniture destroyed and over 100 people left homeless
By Vincent Lali
News | 11 December 2018
Picket against new coal stations at energy summit
Coal-fired power plant plans are “dragging the country’s efforts to address climate change backwards”
Brief | 11 December 2018