A banned march on the City of Cape Town has been called off after the City was granted a court order to stop it from taking place.
The inquiry into the township’s policing is finally poised to get under way after a year of court battles.
Police have rearrested human rights activist Angy Peter, who is hailed as the face of the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry into policing.
A two-year fight to get a working janitorial system in Khayelitsha is set to go to court next week if the final letter of demand is ignored.
So everyone wants flush toilets linked to a drainage system. Does anyone know whether there is a budget for this; what, indeed, would it cost?
VIDEO: Sizwe Nzima is an entrepreneur assisting his Khayelitsha community by delivering medicine by bicycle. He is an M&G 200 Young South African.
For the past nine months photographer David Harrison has been documenting sanitation issues in the informal settlements around Khayelitsha.
Angy Peter and Issac Mbadu’s fears of early morning raids and arrests are examples of why an inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha is necessary.
Despite Nathi Mthethwa’s efforts to stop the commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha, township residents refuse to be silenced.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s application for an interdict against the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry will be heard next month.
A large number of police officers at three stations in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, are being disciplined for misconduct, according to a police report.
Nathi Mthethwa has announced that he will file court papers to challenge the validity of the commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha.
The new bail date falls three days after the public hearings into policing in Khayelitsha begins, and Angy Peter is one of the key witnesses.
Suspicions are growing about what is behind the recent arrest of Social Justice Coalition worker Angy Peter on charges of kidnapping and murder.
Officers are allegedly targeting everyone in their path as gang violence among teenagers rises in Khayelitsha. Victoria John reports.
Two Social Justice Coalition activists have been arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a man they had allegedly been trying to rehabilitate.
Cape Town is revising a pioneering programme that was meant to maintain and keep toilets clean and provide jobs.
Teenagers in Cape Town who live in poverty and face a bleak future are turning to pangas, not sports fields, to prove themselves – and to keep score.
Cape Town activists say the investigation into policing in the violence-torn area is long overdue.
The Cape Times has reported a man died and a truck was torched during service delivery protests in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
Malema has remained hostile towards the ANC’s leadership, saying that having respect for one’s elders should not dictate policy.
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/ 25 February 2011
Cape Town officials accused of downplaying a ‘growing’ crisis in poor areas.
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/ 7 September 2008
The SACP in the Western Cape supports an electoral pact with the ANC, and considers contesting the elections in its own right.
Child witnesses are often made to confront their assailants, write Anita Funke and Sandiso Phaliso.
Hearings on poverty will take the people’s grievances to the corridors of power, writes Patrick Burnett.
A Cape Town beading initiative is improving the lives of poor women in the townships around the city.
An off-duty policemen was shot and killed in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats on Thursday night while investigating a crime in progress, Western Cape police said.
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/ 26 October 1990
Five dead, scores hurt in running battles with police.