Children “too scared to play outside” in Ocean View
Residents demand increased police visibility, CCTV cameras, more stop and search operations
News | 9 July 2018
How Bo-Kaap’s rising property prices are threatening a community
But many of the neighbourhood’s cash-poor, asset-rich homeowners are resisting the temptation to sell
Text by Aidan Jones. Photos by Barry Christianson.
Feature | 9 July 2018
Residents “take back” their community with clean-up initiative
The International Peace Youth Group in partnership with PRASA and Netreg residents cleaned the area around the train station on Saturday
Brief | 9 July 2018
Cape Town residents wait days for ambulance
Stark divide between Bonnytoun’s coloured and black residents, but all await houses
Feature | 6 July 2018
Steenvilla evictees disappointed after De Lille no-show
Mayor’s office says she was not aware of meeting with residents
By Tariro Washinyira and Chumani Mazwi
Brief | 6 July 2018
Social housing residents demand option to buy homes
Evicted people, informal settlement residents and backyarders march through city centre
News | 5 July 2018
Cape Town launches Safe Space for homeless people
Facility will provide overnight shelter for up to 230 homeless people
By Zakwani Abeidabeeku Zulualabiade
Brief | 4 July 2018
How a woman secures her shack when it rains
Masiphumelele’s informal settlement is built on a wetland and regularly floods
News | 4 July 2018
Injured woman has Home Affairs nightmare
Long queues and rude officials have made it extremely difficult for Kundji Tembo to renew her asylum papers
News | 4 July 2018