Articles for Matthew Hirsch

Cape Town backtracks on closing pools during week

The City says it’s piloting new operating days to now run from Wednesdays to Sundays until April

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News | 26 January 2026

Why is UCT’s Jagger Library still boarded up?

Future of the building, gutted by fire almost five years ago, is still being discussed

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News | 26 January 2026

Social housing set to be built at Salt River Market this year

Funding is secured, but about 50 families living in an informal settlement still need to be relocated

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News | 12 January 2026

Protesters express solidarity with Palestine Action hunger strikers

“It is a grotesque irony that the law should be used to criminalise opposition to genocide rather than genocide itself,” says South African Jews for a Free Palestine

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News | 6 January 2026

Housing activist group wants to bid for R87-million property

The City of Cape Town has announced that the old Woodstock hospital, which has been occupied by hundreds of people since 2017, will be sold

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News | 19 December 2025

After the shelter: Cape Town’s urgent need to house homeless people

Shelters and Safe Spaces are only stop-gap solutions. Transitional accommodation and support is needed, say experts.

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News | 10 December 2025

Protesters demand Cape Town holocaust centre recognise genocide in Gaza

The vigil also marks International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

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Brief | 9 December 2025

Cape Town city council approves plan to sell Woodstock Hospital

Residential development planned, including affordable housing

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News | 4 December 2025

Cape Town’s unique shelter officially recognised by government

The facility provides safety support for LGBT+ and male victims of violence

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Brief | 3 December 2025