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Buy-in: Isaac Mutant was an active participant in the making of the documentary Mutant. (Photo: Chris Kets)
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Inside the head of a Mutant

A film more about an entire culture than one man’s place in it, Mutant gives new meaning to the phrase ‘bigger than hip-hop’

The deadlock at the Nelson Mandela Bay metro municipality, with damaging consequences for municipal performance, reaffirms the urgency for the government to act on its own proposal.

Court must declare Cape Town’s ‘inhuman’ demolitions, evictions illegal, says law centre

The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions

Santonio Jonkers​ was arrested and beaten by the police for being in contravention of a court order interdicting against further settlement at Die Sloot.

Hangberg: ‘A view too good for poor people’

Four years after the riots of 2010, Hangberg is on the edge of rebellion after the arrest of a resident. A local leader warns of impending bloodshed.

Abalone poaching forms a major part of the informal economy in Hout Bay’s Hangberg community.

Fishing for answers at poaching’s ground zero

Behind the Cape’s illicit perlemoen trade are whole communities that rely on the income the illegal abalone fishers bring in.

Emergence of the new struggle

Emergence of the new struggle

Democratic Left Front places its hopes on ecosocialism to lead South Africa from dystopia

Cape Town riot tactics under fire

Cape Town’s mayoral committee has defended the controversial riot-control methods of South African Police Service and city law enforcement officers.

Rights commission slams Zille’s ‘wild’ claim

Claims by Helen Zille that the SA Human Rights Commission was a "political hit-squad" for the ANC were untruthful, the commission said on Thursday.