New library brings hope to Wolwerivier

Families in the tin settlement 30km from Cape Town have access to books at last

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News | 8 September 2022

Civil society criticises Gender Commission box-ticking exercise

Organisations say the period for public comment on selection of commissioners is inadequate

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News | 7 September 2022

New fishing quotas to be allocated

But only original applicants may apply for rights

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News | 6 September 2022

City intensifies operations against unlicensed amaphela taxis

SANCO intervenes to try and end the unrest and impasse with law enforcement agencies

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News | 6 September 2022

Taxi drivers burn streets of Hout Bay

Amaphela are demanding that the City compensate them for loss of income since MyCiTi started operating

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News | 5 September 2022

Protesters slam ninth postponement in murder case

“The investigating officer messed up and the state needs to take accountability” says Funeka Soldaat

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News | 5 September 2022

River Club construction carries on amidst court delays

Observatory Civic Association says development is violating a court interdict

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News | 5 September 2022

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

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News | 2 September 2022

Women’s Assembly holds sit-in after funding cut

Tshisimani Centre apologises

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Brief | 31 August 2022

Meet Dunoon’s gardeners with disabilities

“Some have hands, some have legs and some have ideas”

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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”.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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News | 26 August 2022