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Out of the rough, soaring like eagles: The Mitchells Plain Golf Club story

A golf club without a golf course is defying the odds to produce future stars from an unlikely place

South African healthcare workers say the country’s regulations stop them from finding alternative, more climate-friendly ways of running hospitals and dealing with waste. (Canva)

Waste, food and power: How hospitals fuel climate change

Almost 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector. Rethinking how hospitals run can get this down. But healthcare workers say regulations stop them from…

Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain

‘Station Strangler’ due to be freed after 28 years in jail

Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain

IT guru Bryan Fisher (left) keeps the tablets up to date for learners such as Dilshaad Lentjies, Daniel and Abigail Simons (above, from left).
Photo: David Harrison/M&G

Simons says School in a Box helps him get top marks

The School in a Box device allows children to learn in a fun way even if they don’t have internet or electricity

Young leader: Lisakhanya Mathiso (in red) believes that educating members of her community about the climate crisis helps them to understand that it affects everyone. (David Harrison/M&G)

Meet the young activist from Mitchells Plain who’s fighting for a greener world

Climate activist Lisakhanya Mathiso, 18, from Tafesig uses dance to educate people in her community about the climate crisis

July 18 2020 – Part of Dunoon settlement outside of Cape Town experienced heavy flooding after a massive winter storm, forcing many resdients to have to abandon their homes to the water. (Photo by David Harrison)

Wet worries for Cape Town’s poorest a perennial issue

A fortnight after an early winter downpour, a recently established informal settlement comes to terms with the Cape’s hydromorphology of seasonal floodplains.

Food aid roll out sees drop in looting

Residents and police say criminals are behind attacks on Cape stores and delivery trucks

Enforcing the lockdown: Soldiers and police in the Cape Flats. There are concerns that some members of the security forces are abusing their authority (Pieter Bauermeister/AFP)

‘Frustrated’ police resort to force

Regulation uncertainty leaves slap-happy police and soldiers to decide when people should or shouldn’t be allowed on the streets

Passion for classics runs deep

‘Some day if I’m a millionaire I’ll still be driving a Datsun’

Recent history proves that when the military are deployed to do community level policing the results are ugly, writes the author. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images)

Military intervention is not a crime-fighting solution

Moving towards militarised policing in South Africa could prove to be a deadly mistake

Storyteller: Yusuf Daniels. (David Harrison/M&G)

‘Accidental’ author climbs bestseller list

​Yusuf Daniels, a former auctioneer, describes himself as someone who became an author by mistake

‘But as South Africa continues to battle its many challenges, the fibres of this social contract are slowly becoming frayed,’ writes Thanduxolo Nkala. (David Harrison/M&G)

DA accuses ANC of instigating Western Cape land protests

Communities in Parkwood, Vrygrond, Ocean View and Mitchell’s Plein have occupied vacant land in protest against the lack of housing in the province

Hundreds of people who had built shacks on state land in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats were removed by police. Most had moved out of their backyard shacks in Mitchells Plain

City of Cape Town pushes for “zero tolerance” on land protests

A priority committee is set to be established within the SAPS to deal with land protests after city officials requested more action

Three killed in Cape gang shooting

Two teenagers are among those killed in a shooting over the weekend during gang violence in Mitchells Plain.

For the common good: Old struggles in a new style

For the common good: Old struggles in a new style

Analysts are divided over whether social protest will fare better with help from the middle class.

Court postpones Zille case

A Mitchells Plain court on Tuesday postponed a hearing for Cape Town mayor Helen Zille and 10 others who were arrested on Sunday during a protest against drug lords in a suburb…