Huge housing project stopped by “masked thugs”
Beneficiaries of Covid Village relocation project in Cape Town marched to Mfuleni police station to demand SAPS take action
By Vincent Lali
News | 19 June 2024
Expanded Public Works Programme could play an important role in upgrading informal settlements
Workers recruited in informal settlements are well placed to manage the process
Opinion | 19 June 2024
Meet the beekeepers of the mangrove forests
Members of the Cwebeni cooperative trek four kilometres to harvest honey deep in the forests of the Wild Coast
News | 18 June 2024
Shelters in Cape Town are filling up as winter bites
The Haven’s shelters are already 85% full
Brief | 18 June 2024
Youth take to their bikes to protest against mining companies
Youth Affected by Mining United in Action cycled the “Toxic Tour” to various mining companies’ offices in Johannesburg
Brief | 18 June 2024
News24 vs Sunday Independent: a look at the Press Ombud’s ruling
Opinion may be “extreme, unjust, unbalanced, exaggerated and prejudiced” but it must be “honestly-held … without malice, on a matter of public interest on facts that are true”.
Law | 18 June 2024
In photos: one of the worst places to live in Cape Town
“Our parents lived in this poverty, we are living in this poverty, and now our children are living in this poverty”
Text by Mary-Anne Gontsana. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 14 June 2024
Judge Mngqibisa-Thusi cleared of gross misconduct charges
But tribunal finds that it is gross negligence to fail to deliver 27 judgments within accepted time-frames
Law | 14 June 2024