Laundry offers free showers to homeless people
LaundReCycle is energy and water self-sufficient. It has been running since 2021 at the Streetscapes Urban Farm.
Brief | 30 January 2024
Shack dwellers build makeshift speed bumps on ‘deadly’ road
At least two people died and three shacks were destroyed in a taxi accident on Old Faure Road near Mfuleni on Friday
By Vincent Lali
News | 29 January 2024
Urgent court bid by Dipuo Peters to stop her suspension fails
The ANC MP was sanctioned by Parliament for state capture breaches while she was Minister of Transport
Law | 29 January 2024
South African journalists hold vigil in solidarity with Palestinian journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists has recorded 83 deaths since 7 October but is investigating many other unconfirmed deaths of reporters
Brief | 28 January 2024
Hundreds evicted from buildings in Cape Town city centre
Many of the evictees slept outside with their belongings, saying they have nowhere else to go
News | 26 January 2024
Mowbray police assault: no names and no consequences
Victim has left work out of fear
News | 26 January 2024
Sinkholes open under Khayelitsha shacks, flooding homes with sewage
The whole of Khayelitsha is affected by a blocked sewer line, says City of Cape Town
By Vincent Lali
News | 25 January 2024
Case of lawyer accused of race attack postponed
Gary Trappler is accused of slashing the tyres of Green Point resident Thandi Mgwaba’s hired car on 19 February 2020.
Brief | 25 January 2024
City flooded with more than 900 comments over relocation of railway occupiers
Once the rail agency responds to these comments, a report will be sent to the Municipal Planning Tribunal for a final decision
News | 25 January 2024