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Rich history: Golden Acre has always been a place of transition, between
train stations and taxis and between work and home. There are plans to
redevelop the tower and upgrade the retail component. Photo: Wikipedia

Golden Acre entering her next era

There is something fitting about the multilevel shopping centre and office block entering another phase of reinvention

Top dollar: One on Bree is a 131m (430ft) mixed-use building under construction in Cape Town. Photo: Paragon Architects

The real estate year in review

2025 didn’t see a boom but it was not a bust

The City of Cape Town has announced housing development that is ‘moving towards inclusion’ – but inclusion for whom? Photo: File

‘Inclusive’ housing a start but we need deeper affordability in Cape Town

True inclusion means deep affordability, long-term protections and treating housing, not as an asset class, but as a right

Housing: Leeuloop Precinct Development in Cape Town, along with two other proposed mixed-use projects, will provide much needed affordable rental accommodation in the innter city. Photo: Supplied

Social housing is essential, but should it be rental-only?

Affordable rental stock is necessary, but social housing should not just be a holding position for people – it should be a launchpad to home ownership

The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Gaza and the US elections: Harris is a flawed but better alternative to Trump

Ultimately, a vote for Harris is a vote against the extremism and corruption of Trump, but it is not necessarily a vote for a more just or ethical foreign policy

Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert

Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality

Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town

Remembering: The old Rand Daily Mail building now has 253 apartments and photos of the news of the day are displayed

Exhibitions in three Johannesburg buildings give historical context to city life

Three buildings in the inner city, now transformed into affordable housing units, commemorate their history

Economists at the 2022 Tax Indaba weighed in on South Africa’s economic prospects, as growth flatlines. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)

Crisis is an opportunity to heal South Africa’s divisive spatial geographies

Apartheid architecture still strips many of dignity; they are on the periphery and rendered invisible

Building of RDPs is in jeopardy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

State calls housing agency to order

Funding has been cut over a slew of problems at the body meant to ensure low-cost homes