It is about power, drugs and money for young gangsters who snub ‘traditional’ loyalist rules
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Two suspects have been arrested for attempted murder, and a key suspect for various shootings remains at large
Gangs offer Cape Flats youths a way to elevate their status, opportunities for manageable responsibility and to gain access to resources. And they start young
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Anita Hermanus offers free walking tours through the streets of Cape Town, the Bo-Kaap and Athlone relating detailed anecdotes of the heroes and history
Cele’s swift action in Soweto has been sorely lacking in other townships plagued by gun violence for years
The city has long had a fascination with South African jazz — and now with its visual artists
Erica verticillata, a plant endemic to an area along the Cape Flats, may have risen from extinction
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In a few years the township will ‘disappear’, and Khayelitsha will become a city, believes one local entrepreneur
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This is the fourth fire in in the area in recent weeks
‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape
After spending more than 40 years in a life of gangsterism, Ralph Haricombe’s life changed after his son asked him to change his life
A young ice-skating champion has beaten the odds and brought home a national gold medal
Amy Jephta and Ephraim Gordon have written and directed a noir TV series that evokes nostalgia as well as tension and violence
At least 50 more police and other law enforcement officers were sent to the area in response to the spate of violence
Children in the Cape Flats see violence very early in their lives and many end up in jail or killed. One of them, now a reformed gangster, walks us through his early traumatic experiences
Mia Arderne’s Mermaid Fillet was a lifetime in the making. The author’s vulnerability gives the book superpowers
The teenagers, who clearly understood that race is fluid – some even changed their identity – felt shunned. If race is socially constructed, they should not be ignored.
A Cape Town women’s group is using coded text messages to help victims of gender-based violence and abuse get out of harm’s way
The enforcement of the lockdown has seen authorities inflict brutal actions on citizens
Plans include reintroducing Hanover Street and property rights for returning victims of removals
In response to Goliath’s gross misconduct complaint, Salie-Hlophe says Goliath has ‘an unhealthy obsession with my marriage’
The Cape’s notorious hoodlum was buried in reverence while an innocent child was shot during a gang chase
YoungstaCPT’s debut is an autobiographical album that explores coloured identity
The policy would not solve all of the city’s housing problems, but would help to address current inequalities
Nokuthula Sigaba proves pizza isn’t the preserve of white people. And Sweet ’n Lovely, the township’s first pizzeria, has many hungry fans
Decade long battle over Philippi farmland comes to a head as campaigners say development would destroy the sensitive agricultural area
Data collection, R1-billion in funding, behavioural change and investigators: This is how the Western Cape is trying to deal with violent crime
"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."
The president has directed the police minister to deploy another 1 000 troops in the Western Cape in the second wave of ‘Operation Lockdown’
Is the township safer five years after a commission of inquiry into policing issued recommendations on how to make it better?
The Cape Flats needs positive peace, not just the enforced absence of violence — a lesson South Africa should’ve learnt from the past
Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable