Lottery underspends R1-billion in grants

Auditor-General find lots of problems, as the institution battles to recover from over a decade of mismanagement and corruption

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Parliament | 14 May 2025

Dunoon erupts in protest after the City of Cape Town knocks down walls in informal settlement

Residents have been replacing shacks with brick and mortar homes

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News | 13 May 2025

Plan to use properties owned by City of Cape Town for homeless project

Streetscapes is fundraising to buy seven inner-city units to expand its reintegration programme

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News | 12 May 2025

Yoliswa Dwane Lecture: the war on Palestinian children

“A nuclear power considers a sick baby to be a security concern.”

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Analysis | 9 May 2025

Families in Cape Town’s squalid backyards are still waiting for promised housing project

The Greater Retreat Housing project was announced in 2018

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News | 9 May 2025

We visited SASSA offices. Here’s what we found

People waiting in long queues told us their frustrations

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News | 7 May 2025

Universal access to trains: Metrorail’s empty promises

New trains have spaces for wheelchairs but many stations and platforms are inaccessible

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News | 7 May 2025

District Six families must wait at least three more years to return

Government has not yet secured funding to build the houses

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Feature | 6 May 2025

Families live in limbo on Cape Town’s railway lines

PRASA has been mum for months about relocation plans

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News | 6 May 2025

Presumed guilty! Years in prison awaiting trial

Goodwood prison massively overcrowded, judge’s report finds

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News | 5 May 2025

Flower farm keeps Constantia’s coloured heritage alive

Jaftha brothers help heal a history of land dispossession

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News | 30 April 2025

In photos: Wildfire scorches Cape Town’s Silvermine reserve

An injured firefighter has been hospitalised and about 198 homes have been evacuated

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Photo Essay | 28 April 2025

Parliament accuses activists of abusing court process

#UniteBehind is challenging the constitutionality of Parliament’s new Code of Conduct

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Law | 28 April 2025

No identity eight years after submitting DNA evidence

Home Affairs incompetence leaves young woman stateless for decades

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News | 25 April 2025