News
Six years to renovate a police station and it still isn’t finished
Two construction companies have left the job incomplete
News | 7 March 2023
Hundreds of public service workers down tools in defiance of court interdict
“We have nothing to lose now because we are earning peanuts anyway” says striking worker
By Chris Gilili, Tariro Washinyira and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 6 March 2023
Climate change almost doubles the risk of wildfires in Cape Town, study shows
Fire Weather Index prior to 2021 UCT fire was highest ever recorded during autumn in Cape Town.
News | 6 March 2023
Mostert’s Mill rises from the ashes while UCT library gutted by fire remains deserted
Little progress has been made restoring Jagger Library and other torched buildings
By Daniel Steyn
News | 6 March 2023
Evicted in the morning, 2,000 Nigel RDP occupiers move back in by evening
High Court ordered a stay of eviction after Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department put 500 families out on the street
News | 3 March 2023
National minimum wage up by 9%. But soaring food costs means this is not enough, say unions
Call for Department of Employment and Labour inspectors to enforce the minimum wage law
By James Stent
News | 2 March 2023
Tsotsi star’s luxury house built with Lottery money fails to sell at auction
Terry Pheto’s Bryanston property was expected to sell for more than R4-million but did not get an offer
News | 2 March 2023
Urgently needed Makhanda water project six years behind schedule
Original completion date for the James Kleynhans Water Treatment Works upgrade was December 2017. It has now been moved to December 2023
News | 2 March 2023
Informal traders inside Cape Town mall told to vacate by next Sunday
For many traders in Belhar Mall, this is their only income to support their families
News | 2 March 2023