Social grant beneficiaries happy after cancelling “green” cards

People who closed EasyPay Everywhere accounts received their full grant amount on SASSA cards

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News | 7 July 2017

Imizamo Yethu community welcomes police probe into death of protester

“We only hope that we get justice and that the community gets what he died fighting for”

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News | 6 July 2017

Community organisations locked out of Hanover Park civic centres

City says it is part of a process “to regularise the use of community facilities” in the area

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News | 5 July 2017

City interdicts Imizamo Yethu rebuilders

After violent protests by community mayor says City will commence reblocking

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News | 5 July 2017

Judge recuses himself from Woodstock eviction

Residents will continue with their complaint against acting judge Weinkove at the Judicial Service Commission

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Brief | 5 July 2017

Uncertain future for False Bay animal rescue shelter

TEARS needs funding to continue providing free veterinary care to animals in Oceanview, Masiphumelele, Vrygrond, and Red Hill

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News | 4 July 2017

Refugees claim abuse at UNHCR

Asylum seekers call for firing of staff at office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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News | 4 July 2017

Months after fire Hout Bay explodes

People from Imizamo Yethu who are in temporary shelters say the City must make good on its promises

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News | 3 July 2017

South Africans put themselves in Zimbabwean shoes

Blessing Lunga and his brothers run a cottage industry from their shack

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News | 30 June 2017

Woodstock residents facing eviction describe neglect by landlord

Brother of 52-year-old man who died in a fire in Albert Road two years ago says he is still traumatised by the event

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News | 29 June 2017

Eviction of homeless Loop Street immigrants was without court order

CCID and City says it has the authority; lawyers disagree

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News | 29 June 2017

Homeless people evicted from disused property in Cape Town city centre

Evictees claim they improved the place while their neighbours describe it as a “den of prostitution, crime, and drugs”

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News | 28 June 2017

Newly repaired community hall torched

City officials to meet with Joe Slovo Park leaders in a bid to end protests that started after shack demolitions

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News | 27 June 2017

Khayelitsha residents build “speed bumps” after man killed by speeding taxi

In protest they also blocked a main road with a shipping container

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Brief | 27 June 2017

Meet Einstein Sibanda and his free-range chicken farm

“I have had a passion for farming since secondary school”

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News | 27 June 2017