Articles for Matthew Hirsch

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