Government
Activists impatient with long wait for promised social housing
City of Cape Town says national government slow to release “well-located” land for affordable housing
News | 12 August 2021
Draft Cape Town by-law could see land occupiers fined or imprisoned for up to two years, fear housing activists
Treating occupiers as criminals fails to recognise that the vast majority of people are forced to take land, says Ndifuna Ukwazi
News | 11 August 2021
Makana municipality insists these toilets have been fixed and are in use. But there’s a padlock on the gate
Taxi drivers, commuters, and vendors complain
News | 11 August 2021
Cape Town has reached Transport Day Zero. This is why
Lack of political leadership at all tiers of government and a failure to implement transport planning policy are to blame
By Steve Kretzmann and Peter Luhanga
Analysis | 29 July 2021
R350 Covid grant is too little and excludes too many, research report finds
Grant is used up on basic services that should be free
News | 28 July 2021
Life Esidimeni repeatedly warned health department, inquest hears
Former managing director describes transfer of patients by health department as “hurried”, “haphazard” and not conforming to discharge procedures
News | 21 July 2021
Life Esidimeni inquest will determine if health officials could be criminally convicted
Previous arbitration process found the deaths were not natural but caused unlawfully and negligently by government employees
News | 20 July 2021
Declaring a State of Emergency explained
Some people have been calling for a State of Emergency to be declared because of civil unrest in the country
Law | 15 July 2021
Refugees frustrated by Home Affairs online renewal system
Officials accused of exploiting asylum seekers’ desperation at the Pretoria refugee centre
By Kimberly Mutandiro and Tariro Washinyira
News | 13 July 2021