Elections 2026: Affordable housing – has the City of Cape Town done enough?
The City’s plans for 28,400 affordable homes may pay off but it won’t be soon
By Matthew Hirsch, Alice Scott and Daniel Steyn
Analysis | 14 October 2026
Protesters demand end to power cuts and sewage spills
Sewage from broken drains sticks to the fingers of wheelchair users, says protester
By Vincent Lali
News | 14 October 2026
#UniteBehind demands prosecutions over R3.5-billion ‘too-tall trains’
Activists ask NPA, the Hawks and SIU to investigate the decade-old Swifambo contract as an organised criminal enterprise
By Liezl Human
News | 13 October 2026
In photos: PAGAD protest outside suspected drug dealer’s Cape Town house
Belgravia residents demand police do more to end gangsterism and shootings
Text by Abonge Chiya. Photos by Brenton Geach.
Photo Essay | 12 October 2026
March at Cape Town’s Princess Vlei highlights danger for women after sunset
“Ekurhuleni symbolises how the government has failed over and over” says Lucinda Evans
Brief | 10 October 2026
Cop on trial for torture made colonel and promoted to station commander
Delmore Manuel and two others are accused of torturing a barber at his workplace in Mowbray in 2023. Now he runs Muizenberg SAPS
News | 9 October 2026
Khayelitsha brothers turn invasive hyacinth into biochar business
Siyanda and Akhona Sopangisa hope to sell biochar to farmers
By Vincent Lali
News | 9 October 2026
Households on Cape Town sewage pond demand to be relocated
On Wednesday residents of Siyangena informal settlement in Philippi East protested
Brief | 8 October 2026
Silent protest honours the children killed since 7 October 2023
More than 20,000 children have been killed in Palestine over three years
News | 7 October 2026