Cape Flats communities shut down in protest over lack of policing
“When we call the police, they don’t come, but now they are standing around here just watching us”
By Ashraf Hendricks and Barbara Maregele
News | 25 September 2018
Damage to West Coast beaches from mining can be kept to “acceptable” levels, say consultants
Australian company tries again to get approval for huge expansion project
By John Yeld
News | 25 September 2018
“In Camps Bay there’s lots of space – leave our beaches alone”
Capetonians speak out against development of Maiden’s Cove
Photo Essay | 25 September 2018
“My house smells like a toilet”
City of Cape Town’s janitorial programme has left Siyahlala and other informal settlements unserviced for over a year
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 24 September 2018
No progress for the “rainbow nation” without redress, says artist
In Things we lost in the Rainbow, artist Athi-Patra Ruga tries to reclaim the spaces from which he and many others have been historically exiled
Photo Essay | 21 September 2018
Residents of Marikana informal settlement left in the dark
A year after High Court ordered City of Cape Town to buy the land but the matter is still in court
Brief | 21 September 2018
Zimbabwean teachers in SA unpaid for months
Western Cape Education Department says Home Affairs is to blame
Brief | 21 September 2018
Sea Point security company in court over provident fund contributions
Proexec owners say they are cash-strapped and unable to pay
Brief | 20 September 2018
City of Cape Town fails to explain R140m property sale bungle
But there is a solution that can benefit the city’s residents
News | 20 September 2018