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Steve Kretzmann

Steve Kretzmann is a journalist who learnt the ropes at East Cape News in Grahamstown before establishing the online news agency West Cape News in 2006 as a platform for trainee reporters to get into the print media industry. He has published news and feature in all regional and national newspapers, as well as The Guardian and the Daily Mail in the UK. He also established the theatre reviewing site The Critter to sate his enjoyment of the performing arts. He studied journalism and photography at Rhodes University in the mid-’90s.

The Milnerton Lagoon, which is an estuary formed by the Diep River, remains highly polluted fours years after the Western Cape environmental inspectorate ordered the City of Cape Town to clean it up. Archive photo: Steve Kretzmann

Sewage stench lingers at Milnerton Lagoon

Years after the City of Cape Town was ordered to clean it up, the estuary is still polluted

File photo: One of the 13 locomotives supplied by Swifambo.  (Supplied)

Ramaphosa gives go-ahead for SIU to probe corruption at PRASA

But it’s four years late, says activist

A screengrab from Google Earth (September 2021) shows untreated sewage pooling in the cemetery at Sannieshof in the North West Province. It is visible in the lower centre of the image and flows past the informal settlement to the Harts River (upper left).

Raw sewage stinks up North West towns

Google Earth shows sewage filling the area from the cemetery to the township of Asiganang, and flowing to the Harts River

On Human Rights Day, Reclaim the City took over Rondebosch Golf Course to protest the City of Cape Town’s failure to redistribute public land for affordable housing.

New housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers

City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report

Sunny days for Western Cape’s Swartland

The Swartland, made famous throughout the country by WeetBix’s old advertising campaign, is characterised by undulating fields of wheat planted and harvested in orderly rows and…

Pitching and bitching

The Sithengi Film and Television Market has left a bitter taste in the mouths of some filmmakers and directors, who say the pitching sessions, had effectively been hijacked by…

Refugees’ right to work goes to court

The right of refugees to work in South Africa’s private security industry — and by extension, in all fields regulated by trade or professional bodies — are crunch issues in an…