In photos: Cape Town’s tempest

At least five dead, and many lose their homes

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Photo Essay | 8 June 2017

Dozens of Hout Bay homes severely damaged in Cape storm

Some shacks that were rebuilt after the fires earlier this year blew down

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Photo Essay | 7 June 2017

Agents threaten to close down police call centre

Call centre agents say salary increase was agreed to in 2013

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Brief | 7 June 2017

Artist sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder of sex worker

The killing of sex workers will not be tolerated, says judge

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Law | 7 June 2017

Cape Town parking marshals made to work through storm

“We are staying in shacks. We don’t know what is going to happen at home”

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Brief | 7 June 2017

People’s vote held on Zuma

Civil society organisations are holding polls at train stations

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Brief | 6 June 2017

Social grants company appoints “independent ombudsman”

Advocate Neville Melville says communication with beneficiaries remains “a huge problem”

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News | 6 June 2017

Some Cape Town homes without water at night as City tries to find right pressure

Councillor urges residents to report problems

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Brief | 6 June 2017

Gugulethu community complain of bad policing at poorly attended imbizo

Residents hope police deputy minister will follow up their individual cases

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Brief | 5 June 2017

Shack demolitions in Philippi

Displaced resident says she can’t keep on paying rent with her child grant money

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Brief | 5 June 2017

Sarah Baartman sculptor speaks out against art censorship

“I was trying to understand my own suffering” says Willie Bester, whose work has been covered up at UCT

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Feature | 5 June 2017

Gugulethu clinic gets its mobile police station

Police deputy minister delivers on promise

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Brief | 5 June 2017

Protesters chant in support of penile amputation

COSATU leads march against violence against women

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News | 5 June 2017

Community leader shot dead after massive Khayelitsha land occupation

Backyarders vow to continue battle for land

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News | 1 June 2017

Couple to receive a house after 50 years in a shack

Plan for 180 houses to be built in Pella, near Atlantis, within 12 months

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News | 1 June 2017

Rocky start to reblocking at Imizamo Yethu

The reorganisation of the informal settlement, meant to take three months, is struggling to make progress

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News | 31 May 2017