Articles for Matthew Hirsch

Construction of homes for Bishopscourt land claimants set to begin

Displaced community received 12-hectares of prime property in affluent Cape Town suburb

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News | 12 March 2025

People living in abandoned Cape Town building face eviction

About 30 people have been living in 104 Darling Street for more than two decades

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Photo Essay | 10 March 2025

Mixed reactions to affordable housing development on Mowbray Golf Course

Some Cape Town residents want the golf course to remain as it is

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News | 28 February 2025

Concourt judgment on Tafelberg could change future of social housing

Two weeks before the hearing, Western Cape Government announced the Sea Point property will include affordable housing

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News | 27 February 2025

Hundreds join pro-Palestine rally in Sea Point

Palestine Solidarity Campaign renews call for SA government to cut ties with Israel, among other demands

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Brief | 22 February 2025

Cape Town museum tells story of life in Palestine

Gaza Remains the Story exhibit is on at the Homecoming Centre

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Brief | 18 February 2025

Bishopscourt land claimants to finally break ground on housing development

This comes 20 years after their claim was officially granted

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News | 12 February 2025

No plan yet for Cape Town families facing eviction

Bromwell residents still do not know where or when they will be relocated

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Brief | 6 February 2025

Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque

Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”

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News | 4 February 2025

D-Day for public comment on plans for old Woodstock Hospital site

Reclaim the City activists picket outside Civic Centre

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News | 31 January 2025

Affordable housing to be built on contested Sea Point site, says provincial government

Announcement by MEC Tertuis Simmers comes after a decade of battles

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News | 30 January 2025

Concern about City’s plan for Woodstock Hospital

Public comment period on proposed sale closes on 31 January

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News | 23 January 2025

City to decide on objections to six-storey Bo-Kaap hotel

Residents are opposed to the development overshadowing the oldest mosque in the country

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News | 22 January 2025

District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories

Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid

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News | 17 December 2024

Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens

German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces

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Brief | 11 December 2024

Protest opposite Holocaust and Genocide Centre in Cape Town: call for ceasefire in Gaza

The picket marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

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Brief | 9 December 2024