South Africa|Western Cape

Gugulethu residents at wits end with company that built their flood prone houses

Cape Town Community Housing Company hits back: “If you bought something, you own it and you are responsible for it”

Gugulethu group stop housing project

Disgruntled beneficiaries say houses being built at Erf 8448 “are not what we were shown more than 15 years ago”

Covid Village occupiers live in limbo

Minister Sisulu to discuss N2 occupation with Cabinet, says Mbulelo Ncedana

Herbicides accumulate in Camps Bay sea life

Scientists blame sewage pipe but city councillor says the paper is flawed

Lockdown in pictures - Day 129: Play station

Lockdown in pictures - Day 128: A quiet Eid

Police disperse Zimbabwean protesters in Cape Town

Demonstration was in solidarity with human rights protests in Zimbabwe

Lockdown in pictures - Day 127: Baking bread

Unregistered ECD principals plead with government

“Some of our teachers are resorting to occupying vacant land because they have no money to pay rent”

Land occupations displace initiation schools

“If they build their shacks on these sites, what will happen to their culture?”

Creecy poised for West Coast wind farm decision

New concerns raised over impact of transmission line connecting the project to the grid

Residents’ association wants activist’s soup kitchen closed

“Feed them in their areas” says association chairperson

Khayelitsha business owner caught in “rain of stones” during protest

Nelly Tom has scratches and bruising on her face and her work vehicle is severely damaged

Lockdown in pictures - Day 126: Trading from home

Cape Town residents close bridge to reduce crime

Pedestrian walkway connecting Mandalay to Lower Crossroads cut off

“I can’t even feed my children” says unemployed farmworker

Seasonal workers take farm owner to CCMA for “unfair dismissal and illegal eviction”