Articles for Matthew Hirsch

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

Last minute reprieve for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit holders

The Minister of Home Affairs has extended the ZEP to 28 November 2025

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News | 29 November 2024

Homeless man’s struggle to keep his beloved dogs

The City of Cape Town has told Clayton Smith to leave De Waal Park where he has lived for 13 years

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News | 28 November 2024

City extends public comment on sale of old Woodstock Hospital

This follows a meeting on Wednesday by Woodstock ratepayers to discuss the City’s intention to sell the site

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News | 22 November 2024

Public Works Minister: Telkom Towers police HQ a “monument to inefficient management”

A billion rand later, the department will either repurpose the complex or get rid of it

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Brief | 15 November 2024

Castle occupiers removed

The group had been living on the grounds since 2020 but the high court recently granted an order to evict them

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News | 1 November 2024

Picket held in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

The SA government is submitting evidence to the International Court of Justice to prove Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

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Brief | 28 October 2024