State liable for damages after teenager shot by off-duty cop
Court found it “shocking” that officer had been given a firearm despite failing shooting tests and being “consistently incompetent”
Law | 9 November 2021
High Court warns Legal Practice Council “to get its house in order”
The regulator for legal practitioners “twiddled its thumbs” for eight years over delinquent attorney
Law | 8 November 2021
New data shows how badly polluted Cape Town’s vleis are
Unacceptable levels of E. coli persist in Zeekoevlei, Zandvlei, Rietvlei, and Milnerton lagoon
By Liezl Human
News | 8 November 2021
Climate activists picket at Parliament - accuse COP26 of excluding African farmers
“If there is no drastic change we won’t be able to farm with cattle and maize in a few years time”
News | 8 November 2021
Toddler airlifted to hospital after falling into uncovered drain
Local farmworker movement plans to lay charges against farmer
News | 5 November 2021
Scathing report released on Cape Town’s homeless policies
The more than 400-page report was compiled by The Inkathalo Conversations and commissioned by the City in 2020
By James Stent
News | 4 November 2021
Makhaza finally gets a temporary police station
Police say construction of a permanent police station still on the cards for Khayelitsha
Brief | 2 November 2021
Fire victims wait three years for SASSA disaster grants
Some families have still not been paid out after the October 2019 fire in Vygieskraal in Cape Town
Brief | 2 November 2021
Immigrant children use art to show how prejudice hurts
“I have never been to the DRC. I speak Sesotho fluently and a bit of Afrikaans but I am treated very differently by my peers.”
Photo Essay | 29 October 2021