Cape Town’s plan to appeal Woodstock land use resolution ‘short-sighted’
/ 1 June 2023

Cape Town’s plan to appeal Woodstock land use resolution ‘short-sighted’

The city council wants to overturn the heritage authority’s resolution to conserve green space

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City clings to Woodstock report that might alter housing plan
/ 31 March 2023

City clings to Woodstock report that might alter housing plan

A social impact assessment recommends a bowling green in the Cape Town suburb be made into a community park, not used for social housing — and residents agree

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For Cape Town – with love and squalor
/ 20 February 2023

For Cape Town – with love and squalor

Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past

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/ 23 October 2007

Have you made it on Wikipedia?

They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. But these days, it seems you haven’t really made it unless you have that most prized of status symbols — your very own page on Wikipedia. ”It’s something of an honour,” said journalist Howard Altman of being added to the world’s largest online encyclopedia.