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Julia Jansch's award-winning documentary 'From Dust We Spin' explores the unique South African motorsport of car spinning through the eyes of Logan Maart, a teenager finding her…
SANDF deployment to back police set to start on 31 March
National police commissioner Fannie Masemola said the army would play a supporting role to the South African Police Service
There’s something in the water. Khayelitsha’s kids want you to see it
When a group of learners headed out with their cameras to document infectious disease in the time of climate change, many came back with what they see every day — dangerous,…
Trauma is hampering the education of South Africa’s children
Teachers, especially those in schools where violence, drugs and gangsterism are a daily reality, need to become ‘trauma informed’
The long and short of a 50-year artistic career
Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon
Cape Flats: Gang leadership crumbles as members fight their own
It is about power, drugs and money for young gangsters who snub ‘traditional’ loyalist rules
Cape Flats shootings keep residents locked indoors for a second week
Two suspects have been arrested for attempted murder, and a key suspect for various shootings remains at large
‘This is why a forever war kid like me is friends with gangsters’
Gangs offer Cape Flats youths a way to elevate their status, opportunities for manageable responsibility and to gain access to resources. And they start young
Champion of the celebrated heroes of District Six
Anita Hermanus offers free walking tours through the streets of Cape Town, the Bo-Kaap and Athlone relating detailed anecdotes of the heroes and history
Uproar over Gauteng mass shootings while other areas suffer in relative silence
Cele’s swift action in Soweto has been sorely lacking in other townships plagued by gun violence for years
South African artists taking over Chicago, Bonteheuwel style
The city has long had a fascination with South African jazz — and now with its visual artists
Locally extinct Erica makes a comeback in Cape Town
Erica verticillata, a plant endemic to an area along the Cape Flats, may have risen from extinction
It’s a Khaltsha thing: Khayelitsha’s growing middle class
In a few years the township will ‘disappear’, and Khayelitsha will become a city, believes one local entrepreneur
Fire in Bonteheuwel forces extended family with 15 children into one-bedroom house
This is the fourth fire in in the area in recent weeks
Security beefed up at Philippi school where teacher was killed
‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape