Generations of Cape Town flower traders cut it in the city market
“Everybody in the family is here, cousins, aunties and great aunties”
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 28 August 2019
Protesters demand Western Cape crime summit
Threats of “a national protest and a possible tax revolt” if government does not respond
Brief | 27 August 2019
Langa residents demand removal of ward councillor
Dozens protest outside municipal offices over blocked drains and toilets, lack of garbage removal and broken street lights
By Vincent Lali
News | 27 August 2019
PRASA employee describes dysfunctional organisation
“Angry customers ask why we want to verify their tickets when there is no service?” says ticket collector
Brief | 27 August 2019
Toilets unserviced for months in Khayelitsha
We breath unbearable stench from the dirty loos, says resident
By Vincent Lali
News | 27 August 2019
Raw sewage runs through Dunoon’s Ethembeni informal settlement
Residents say they have been living in these conditions for over a year
News | 27 August 2019
“We turned an unused building into a place many now call home”
“In this place there is love and care,” says Woodstock hospital occupier
News | 27 August 2019
Still no police station five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing
Police ministry and SAPS continue to fail the vulnerable and the poor, says activist
Brief | 26 August 2019
Is Melissa Whitehead a principled civil servant or a “cowboy”?
Her supporters say she was too progressive for Cape Town’s municipality. Her detractors accuse her of playing victim.
By Tessa Knight
News | 26 August 2019