Bo Kaap

The ‘language of apartheid’ can be traced beyond just the Dutch settlers

Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap community was effectively sealed off from visitors more than a week before the president’s announcement

"My approach is to become a part of the community — a simulation of what and whom I could have become had I grown up on the Cape Flats."

"Cape Town is a charming but tumultuous melting pot of culture, people and weather."

Delving into the history and cultural roots of the Bo-Kaap region in Cape Town.

A property developer has been accused of co-opting a youth group in the Cape Town suburb

​Concerns are growing in three Cape Town communities that developers are muscling into local associations to get them to approve development plans

Nathi Mthethwa says UNESCO will be asked to declare Bo-Kaap a world heritage site

‘It was really so encouraging to see that people are prepared, you know, to sacrifice their lives for this community’

Two groups trying to protect the area’s heritage from gentrification are now at loggerheads

A handful of elderly people waited peacefully for hours for the removal of the crane — a far cry from the violent events that took place on Tuesday

The development of a “monster building” is set to go ahead after a Western Cape high court judgement

Blok, a property development company, has withdrawn its interdict against Bo-Kaap residents in the “spirit of de-escalation”

As Bo-Kaap grapples with history and development, residents are continuing to protest

In Cape Town, residents of gang-riddled areas have found a novel way to use the Ramadan fast to protest against violence and creeping gentrification