Fort Hare says 26 more students have tested positive while Walter Sisulu University says some of its students have been admitted to hospital.
Last week’s tremor has anti-nuclear campaigners questioning the safety of Koeberg, although the nuclear facility said the plant is designed to sustain a magnitude-seven earthquake
Suzuki’s budget offering doesn’t do much much wrong but is not particularly memorable either
An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town
After three decades’ use, South Africa’s only nuclear power plant could see its lifespan extended by 20 years — despite objections
This extract from Mia Arderne’s debut work of fiction, ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ introduces readers to Uncle ‘M16-in-your-bek’
The province has reported a drop in new infections, especially in densely populated areas such as Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Gugulethu, Nyanga and Manenberg.
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
The lockdown has seen fewer incidents of gang violence in some dangerous Cape Town areas, but the criminal underworld is still hard at work
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