South Africa|Western Cape

Dunoon’s potholed sewage-filled roads

City says it cannot maintain the streets due to continued unrest and threats to contractors

“Anti-social behaviour” could soon disqualify you from renting from the City

Public comment on draft housing allocation policy open till 21 July

New LGBTQI+ draft guidelines for schools critically flawed say education activists

Western Cape Education Department is evaluating comments on its Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Guidelines

Community health care workers protest in Khayelitsha

They are demanding to be integrated into the health department

Raising an autistic child in a shack

“He once disappeared and it gave us a fright. Now I have to stay and watch him all the time.”

Lockdown in pictures - Day 104: Line of duty

Judge rebukes Cape Town refugee centre

DRC asylum seeker was not given adequate reasons for refusal of application

Glenn Sandler was 36 years old and healthy. Covid-19 plunged him into a coma for three weeks

Cape Town man slowly recovering after weeks on a ventilator

Lockdown in pictures - Day 103: Screening

Shack with a swimming pool and Table Mountain view

But Viziyalo Madola’s community still shares just one toilet

Lockdown in pictures - Day 101: Wait for it

Bheki Cele and JP Smith trade accusations

Call for cops who dragged naked man out of shack to be arrested

Lockdown in pictures-Day 100: The cycle of life

Lockdown in pictures - Day 99: Time to smoke

Human Rights Commission to investigate after man dragged naked from his shack

Shack dwellers march to police station in protest

“I was in my room washing. Then they threw me outside.” Bulelani Qolani describes how he was dragged naked from his shack

“The video of me is important so people see the City of Cape Town”