Transport department to shut down “problematic” ranks and routes if taxi violence continues
More people killed and several others injured this week in ongoing feud over taxi routes
Brief | 15 July 2021
Garbage collection resumes in Khayelitsha after weeks of rubbish piling up
A tender appeal interrupted garbage collection for over two weeks
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 15 July 2021
Shack dwellers under Potsdam Bridge play cat and mouse with City
Municipality puts in rocks, families remove them
Brief | 13 July 2021
Workers dismissed for refusing polygraph test head to Labour Court
The workers will argue that polygraph tests are unscientific and will ask for their dismissals to be rescinded
By Liezl Human
News | 9 July 2021
Housing for informal settlement near Cape Town airport on hold
Province waiting for tests on aircraft noise, but resident says they have been living there since the 1990s and have not gone deaf
Brief | 9 July 2021
This charity has been feeding Cape Town’s hungry for more than 80 years. Never have so many people queued for food
“The increase in numbers shows how much people are struggling out there”
Feature | 8 July 2021
Siqalo shack dwellers want solar power
Residents are asking the City of Cape Town to subsidise a model they say worked in Stellenbosch
News | 8 July 2021
Makeshift church takes in flood victims in Bloekombos
Nomava Mboniswa offered her zinc church structure after she saw images of the flood on TV
By Vincent Lali
News | 8 July 2021
Video: Surviving 122 days in Groote Schuur ICU with Covid
Winston Spencer Cogill is full of praise for the staff that saved his life
Video | 7 July 2021