What was supposed to be an upliftment project for the Salt River community has turned into a nightmare for market organiser Kim van Lingen. The permit for her market was withdrawn days before the second one was to take place.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 12 June 2015
No arrests have yet been made following the death of construction worker Melikhaya Pisana during the strike at Good Hope Construction.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 5 June 2015
The latest in a string of articles by the Social Justice Coalition (SJC), disseminating inaccurate and misleading information, further warps the facts and the realities within which the City of Cape Town must operate. But then, the SJC never let the facts get in the way of the pretty graphics that they have begun to share widely with such gusto.
Ernest Sonnenberg
Opinion | 29 May 2015
Yesterday, about 150 members of the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) marched to the civic centre. They demanded “a detailed account” of hundreds of submissions to the City of Cape Town on the 2015/16 budget.
Bernard Chiguvare
Brief | 28 May 2015
Zimbabweans whose business permit applications have been rejected are hoping that the decision will be reversed, but the Department of Home Affairs is dragging its heels.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 26 May 2015
Ndileka Biyo, owner of Rockasa Design in Masiphumelele, has set her sights on a place in the affluent Waterfront.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 25 May 2015
Business owners in Langa township are fed up with load shedding. And residents complain that the rolling blackouts makes their neighbourhoods unsafe.
Pharie Sefali
News | 20 May 2015
Every year the mayor calls for residents to participate in the budget process by making submissions on Cape Town's draft budget. Last year fewer than forty people wrote submissions and only 23 were from the public. This has been the trend for the last couple of years.
Axolile Notywala
Opinion | 14 May 2015
The Reserve Bank came to the rescue of African Bank when it collapsed in August 2014. But there’s no rescue plan for borrowers, many of whom are repaying loans which experts say are contrary to the National Credit Act.
Mandy de Waal
Feature | 11 May 2015
Mosifane Johannes lost his parents by the time he was 11. He grew up in poverty. Today he teaches at a Free State primary school.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 6 May 2015
In the winter of 2014 I interviewed six young men who lived on the streets of Cape Town’s Central Business District.
David Cowan
Opinion | 28 April 2015
Old Mutual has not kept a promise to build more than 500 low cost houses and a shopping centre in Khayelitsha, though this was a condition of a 2008 deal with the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 April 2015
Six years ago, 51-year-old Nomonde Siyaka transformed her family's home in Langa into a two-storey traditional African food restaurant.
Barbara Maregele
News | 16 April 2015
After having half his salary deducted every month for over a year to pay for furniture which he did not buy, a Nyanga man has now been refunded.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 April 2015
Management of the R60 million Langa Junction complex has promised to make information available to angry residents who have complained about a lack of transparency in the building and leasing of the 5,000 square metre space.
Pharie Sefali and Nombulelo Damba
News | 14 April 2015
Nearly six months ago Helena Davids was coerced into taking out additional life cover by an agent representing the 1Life company.
Barbara Maregele
News | 13 April 2015