Homes flooded after Diep River bursts its banks
Community-built Dunoon barrier fails to save people from winter floods
Brief | 2 July 2021
Video: Horrific footage of flooded Cape Town shacks
A terrible rainstorm in Cape Town has flooded shacks in Kraaifontein.
Video | 1 July 2021
Kraaifontein shack dwellers flooded out of their homes
City says most flooded areas “are situated on land that is not suitable for habitation”
Ashraf Hendricks
Photo Essay | 1 July 2021
Domestic worker’s decade long struggle to make her RDP house liveable
Six months after moving in, Nokwayintombi Pateni’s home has still not been electrified
By Vincent Lali
News | 1 July 2021
Siqalo residents brave the Cape floods again
Home to about 2,000 people, the informal settlement experiences flooding almost every winter
Photo Essay | 30 June 2021
Elections 2021: Witzenberg a ‘model municipality’ tarnished by poor waste management and unemployment
Budget choices in Ceres favouring the administrative centre over neighbouring towns littered with potholes and sewage
Text and Photos by Steve Kretzmann
News | 30 June 2021
Waiter loses job a second time because of the pandemic
Restaurant staff left without any income as SA goes back to Level 4
News | 29 June 2021
Heavy rains flood Cape Town’s informal settlements
More rain forecast for the rest of the week
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 29 June 2021
How risky is public transport for infectious disease? We tested it
Next time you hop on a bus, you’ll want to shout: “Open the windows!”
By James Stent, Mary-Anne Gontsana and Tariro Washinyira
Feature | 29 June 2021