Articles for Matthew Hirsch
Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque
Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”
News | 4 February 2025
D-Day for public comment on plans for old Woodstock Hospital site
Reclaim the City activists picket outside Civic Centre
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
News | 30 January 2025
Concern about City’s plan for Woodstock Hospital
Public comment period on proposed sale closes on 31 January
By Daniel Steyn and Matthew Hirsch
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
News | 22 January 2025
District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories
Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid
News | 17 December 2024
Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens
German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces
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
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
By Matthew Hirsch and Joseph Chirume
News | 29 November 2024