Homeless sleep outside “incomplete” City shelter
City says group living outside the Culemborg shelter site is hampering its completion
By Lucas Nowicki and James Stent
News | 5 June 2020
Covid-19: Mother fears for disabled daughter’s life
Woman with debilitating co-morbidities lives with five people in a shack that has no toilet
Brief | 5 June 2020
Life in a shack when you’re in a wheelchair
Every day Nonceba Siyobi sits in the doorway of her home hoping a passerby will help her to the nearest toilet
News | 4 June 2020
“We want to love the police, but they don’t want to love or respect us”
Picket held outside Parliament in solidarity with US protests against police brutality
News | 3 June 2020
Homeless protesters disrupt Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court
If the City of Cape Town can demolish shacks during the lockdown, what is stopping us from evicting tenants? asks backyarder’s landlord
Brief | 3 June 2020
Covid-19: Bank accused of freezing asylum seekers’ accounts during lockdown
Refugees can’t renew permits because offices are closed
News | 3 June 2020
Six die from methanol poisoning in Cape Town
Four more in a critical condition
By James Stent
Brief | 2 June 2020
Covid-19: Parents protest against schools opening
Some schools in the Western Cape start as the rest of the country expects to return next week
News | 1 June 2020