Living on the streets of Vasco: “Law enforcement keeps coming but I still return”
Stephanus Nel is one of an increasing number of people living on the streets in the Cape Town suburb
News | 20 July 2023
Inside a Cape Flats minstrel band
“This is more than just a band. This is like a family.”
Photo Essay | 20 July 2023
City of Cape Town has built fewer than 20 social housing units in the inner city in six years, say activists
City says it has made more than 32,000 square metres of land available but there are challenges, including “hijacking” of buildings
News | 19 July 2023
Pay R10,000 or face a year in prison, court tells former SJC leader
Xolani Klaas pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling a cellphone that belonged to the organisation
News | 19 July 2023
Hundreds march in Cape Town demanding better housing
Shack dwellers and backyarders say their living conditions are unbearable
Brief | 17 July 2023
No bail for Langa woman accused of scalding toddler
The 22-year-old will appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court in September on an attempted murder charge
Brief | 17 July 2023
Burned toddler: woman to appear in court on Friday
More than 1,000 people protest in Langa after assault on four-year-old
News | 11 July 2023
Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack
Oyama Meje and two adults died on Sunday night in Phola Park informal settlement fire
News | 10 July 2023
Two die in Khayelitsha shack fire
Victims of Blowy informal settlement fire were meant to have been relocated
By Vincent Lali
News | 10 July 2023