Floodplain

Amazon’s colonial HQ in Cape Town must be stopped

Wealthy foreign corporations colonise local markets and impose technologies of violence and control on local populations

Michael Kwet
Tshiamo Malatji

7 min read

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)

ADITYA KUMAR

22 JUL 2020

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.

Lester Kiewit

6 min read