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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.
Sewage stench lingers at Milnerton Lagoon
Years after the City of Cape Town was ordered to clean it up, the estuary is still polluted
Ramaphosa gives go-ahead for SIU to probe corruption at PRASA
But it’s four years late, says activist
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
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…