Seven arrested as taxi protest escalates in Cape Town
Nearly a dozen police vehicles, buses and cars have been torched during violent retaliation allegedly by amaphela drivers
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphokazi Mnyobe
News | 2 September 2022
Women’s Assembly holds sit-in after funding cut
Tshisimani Centre apologises
By Liezl Human
Brief | 31 August 2022
Meet Dunoon’s gardeners with disabilities
“Some have hands, some have legs and some have ideas”
Brief | 30 August 2022
Turn Sea Point plot into social housing, say activists
Two years after the Tafelberg sale was overturned, progress has stalled. Now the provincial government says it may want to use the land “in the public interest”.
By Mia Arderne
News | 30 August 2022
Mobile showers for homeless people: “mother of water” bus launched
“I just cried underneath the water,” says homeless woman after first hot shower in ages
News | 26 August 2022
Farm workers in Robertson’s “dumping ground” call for better services
CSAAWU demands that Langeberg Municipality install taps, electricity and toilets for Oppiekoppie community
By Liezl Human
Brief | 26 August 2022
Court’s message in Llandudno case: Don’t take matters into your own hands
Landlord’s conduct “reeks of a pattern of attempts to circumvent” the law says judge
Law | 26 August 2022
Drakenstein Municipality appeals ruling on emergency housing
The municipality believes it has met its constitutional obligations to provide accommodation to people evicted from rural areas
By Liezl Human
News | 26 August 2022
Cape Town is letting the flowers grow
Decision not to mow in some city parks is an important boost for biodiversity
By Peta Brom
Science | 26 August 2022