South Africa|Western Cape|Cape Town

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Fed up with poor service, hundreds march to Eskom office in Khayelitsha

Residents want workers to return to the local office and for Eskom to fix high mast lights, transformers and faulty street lights in the community.

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News | 8 September 2022

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New library brings hope to Wolwerivier

Families in the tin settlement 30km from Cape Town have access to books at last

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News | 8 September 2022

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Trolley assistants at malls pay a “fee” to be allowed to collect tips from shoppers

Some pay up to R50 a day

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News | 7 September 2022

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Civil society criticises Gender Commission box-ticking exercise

Organisations say the period for public comment on selection of commissioners is inadequate

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News | 7 September 2022

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City intensifies operations against unlicensed amaphela taxis

SANCO intervenes to try and end the unrest and impasse with law enforcement agencies

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News | 6 September 2022

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Taxi drivers burn streets of Hout Bay

Amaphela are demanding that the City compensate them for loss of income since MyCiTi started operating

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News | 5 September 2022

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Protesters slam ninth postponement in murder case

“The investigating officer messed up and the state needs to take accountability” says Funeka Soldaat

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News | 5 September 2022

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River Club construction carries on amidst court delays

Observatory Civic Association says development is violating a court interdict

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News | 5 September 2022

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Seven arrested as taxi protest escalates in Cape Town

Nearly a dozen police vehicles, buses and cars have been torched during violent retaliation allegedly by amaphela drivers

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News | 2 September 2022

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Women’s Assembly holds sit-in after funding cut

Tshisimani Centre apologises

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Brief | 31 August 2022

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Meet Dunoon’s gardeners with disabilities

“Some have hands, some have legs and some have ideas”

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Brief | 30 August 2022

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Turn Sea Point plot into social housing, say activists

Two years after the Tafelberg sale was overturned, progress has stalled. Now the provincial government says it may want to use the land “in the public interest”.

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News | 30 August 2022

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Mobile showers for homeless people: “mother of water” bus launched

“I just cried underneath the water,” says homeless woman after first hot shower in ages

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News | 26 August 2022

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Court’s message in Llandudno case: Don’t take matters into your own hands

Landlord’s conduct “reeks of a pattern of attempts to circumvent” the law says judge

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Law | 26 August 2022

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Cape Town is letting the flowers grow

Decision not to mow in some city parks is an important boost for biodiversity

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Science | 26 August 2022

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Iconic women’s housing project of the 1990s, today awash in sewage

Residents of Victoria Mxenge Housing Development have taken the City of Cape Town to the Ombudsman after three years of overflowing sewers

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News | 22 August 2022