Articles for Mary-Anne Gontsana
Fifteen years later still no footbridge for Cape Flats’ school children
A bridge to cross the Vygieskraal River in Kewtown has been on the City of Cape Town’s to do list since 2006
News | 22 September 2021
Mother pleads with strained Dial-a-Ride service to help get her daughter to school
Her daughter is among thousands of people on the City-run service’s waiting list
Brief | 16 September 2021
Busiswa Pikinini has no hands, no feet - and no house
The 27-year-old is one of those hoping for housing in Khayelitsha’s informal settlements
News | 2 September 2021
“The investigating officer in charge of my case used to chill with my rapist”
Rape Crisis marks six years since the launch of its Rape Survivors’ Justice Campaign
News | 27 August 2021
Seven years after the Khayelitsha Commission, policing is worse than ever, say residents
Community wants police minister and other government departments to account for lack of action on commission’s recommendations
News | 26 August 2021
Khayelitsha toilet cleaners work without recommended inoculations
City blames Covid disruptions for being behind on vaccinating workers against tetanus
Brief | 19 August 2021
Draft Cape Town by-law could see land occupiers fined or imprisoned for up to two years, fear housing activists
Treating occupiers as criminals fails to recognise that the vast majority of people are forced to take land, says Ndifuna Ukwazi
News | 11 August 2021
Families living in filth in abandoned building
Gugulethu ward councillor acknowledges building is falling apart but can’t help occupants because it’s privately owned
News | 5 August 2021
People here have been waiting for houses since 1996. They may soon get them
The Valhalla Park Housing Project began in 2016. The first houses are almost finished
Brief | 2 August 2021