A fortnight after an early winter downpour, a recently established informal settlement comes to terms with the Cape’s hydromorphology of seasonal floodplains.
Cape Town’s oldest roadhouse is hoping to make a comeback during the coronavirus lockdown. Nostalgia is the biggest seller
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.
This week, the Black People’s National Crisis Committee (BPNCC) said it would intensify protest if activists are not listened to.
Former Khayelitsha resident Bulelani Mfaco is leading a campaign for the protection of refugee rights in that country
Activists argue that the Australian company suing them is using the courts to silence criticism and so abusing the legal system. The law should change to stop these types of suits
The president and Cabinet dropped their salaries and rejected a hike, but councillors take 4% more
The sector employs 60 000 people in the Western Cape alone. Whereas some centres have cut staff, others are reskilling and preparing for a different future
A key figure in the return of more than 1 000 claimants to Cape Town’s inner city, Shahied Ajam was working on a multi-billion rand land restitution project
The Western province, which has 65% of all positive Covid-19 cases, is preparing additional health facilities for a July peak
The Cape Town institution, which has traded from the same location for 200 years, has been forced from its premises because of being unable to sell tobacco during the lockdown
Staff at Tygerberg hospital detail how, despite their fear of the coronavirus, they continue to help in the medical response to the pandemic
What was the City of Cape Town thinking when it decided to round up homeless people and put them in a camp?
Blanket measures such as lockdowns contribute to the needs and realities of people at the margins of society being overlooked
Smoking out social tobacco users as unique spreaders of the coronavirus sends out the wrong messages
The facility in Cape Town was about quarantining the most vulnerable — the homeless — rather than preventing Covid-19
Denis Goldberg was a forthcoming, funny, angry, brutally honest and impressive man who never stopped fighting for what he believed in
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
Residents and police say criminals are behind attacks on Cape stores and delivery trucks
Heather Van Harte, who runs a small catering business, is changing her cooking habits during the lockdown, and has plans to start a food garden
Dani Kyengo O’Neill has just released her first solo single. It’s a mantra. An anthem. A daily devotion. A queer prayer. Listen to it
We have honoured President Cyril Ramaphosa’s request to put aside politicking and wish opposition parties would do the same
But City authorities vow to stop the erection of new shacks during the national lockdown
The City of Cape Town has said in a statement that it is working around the clock to keep vulnerable people safe
After Easter there was an uptick in domestic violence cases in the country. Shelters have lost income and social workers are having to field as many as 1000 calls a day from women who are now stuck at home with their abusive partners
The lockdown has seen fewer incidents of gang violence in some dangerous Cape Town areas, but the criminal underworld is still hard at work
A group of workers have been dismissed, but they insist they never embarked on industrial action in the first place
The City’s Covid-19 homeless site has been criticised for being inadequate to shelter the most vulnerable from the Coronavirus storm, while drug addicts say they’re being left to suffer due to inadequate medical attention
The disease has a unique trajectory in South Africa, thanks to the rapid move to declare a national disaster and institute a lockdown. But this has only bought time to prepare for the worst
A 71-year-old’s car is his home and that is where he says he will reluctantly ride out the pandemic
Feeding schemes inundated with requests to assist during Covid-19 lockdown
The outbreak and the response to it is showing us that many things are possible, including the provision of water to waterless municipalities