Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap community was effectively sealed off from visitors more than
a week before the president’s announcement
"My approach is to become a part of the community — a simulation of what and whom I could have become had I grown up on the Cape Flats."
"Cape Town is a charming but tumultuous melting pot of culture, people and weather."
Delving into the history and cultural roots of the Bo-Kaap region in Cape Town.
A property developer has been accused of co-opting a youth group in the Cape Town suburb
Concerns are growing in three Cape Town communities that developers are muscling into local associations to get them to approve development plans
Nathi Mthethwa says UNESCO will be asked to declare Bo-Kaap a world heritage site
‘It was really so encouraging to see that people are prepared, you know, to sacrifice their lives for this community’
Two groups trying to protect the area’s heritage from gentrification are now at loggerheads
A handful of elderly people waited peacefully for hours for the removal of the crane — a far cry from the violent events that took place on Tuesday
The development of a “monster building” is set to go ahead after a Western Cape high court judgement
Blok, a property development company, has withdrawn its interdict against Bo-Kaap residents in the “spirit of de-escalation”
As Bo-Kaap grapples with history and development, residents are continuing to protest
In Cape Town, residents of gang-riddled areas have found a novel way to use the Ramadan fast to protest against violence and creeping gentrification
‘If those developers start digging, they’re going to find the remains of our ancestors,” says Igsaan Higgins, who argued against the sale’
The boy was rolling two tyres down Wale Street in preparation for the protest when two officers apprehended him and placed him in a police van
Three months ago, Shakirah Dramat began a small protest in Wale Street, on the periphery of the Bo-Kaap, during peak-hour traffic
The inner city suburb, internationally renowned for its colourful houses, has had enough of private developers and city officials
We live and die and in between we must invest in something permanent – not only in banks.
Residents of all different backgrounds fear that the Bo-Kaap will be left behind if the community does not have forceful collective representation.