Holding power to account
The provincial government plans to allow five-storey buildings and more than 1,300 housing units to be built within the Oude Molen Eco-Village alongside the Black River, but their required Heritage Impact Assessment has been turned down.… Read more
By Liezl Human
The Mowbray Market has been operating on the first Saturday of every month for the past four years, but the a lease on the property has expired and the City is now considering auctioning the lease to the highest bidder.… Read more
I’ve always had a sweet tooth, but have long believed that sweet wine is, well… a little bit shit. Oh, how wrong I’ve been. For the record, I do think the whole sweet wine scene, especially in South Africa, is all a bit confusing to most people.… Read more
Cape Town has become one of South Africa’s premier sources of automotive culture, so just recently the Gas Motorshow National Tour made a stop in the Mother City ahead of the national event.… Read more
Calls of “Phantsi, Afrophobia, phantsi!” (Down with Afrophobia) echoed through Cape Town’s Central Methodist Mission Church on Saturday 20 June as musicians from different African countries performed in a free solidarity concert.… Read more
Hundreds of Zimbabwean nationals are sleeping outside the Zimbabwean consulate in Cape Town pleading for the government to help them get back home.
On Thursday 18 June, piles of large suitcases and bags wrapped in plastic were strewn on the pavements around the office.… Read more
A Flea in Her Ear at Magnet Theatre from 24 to 27 June. The iconic French farce written by Georges Feydeau and here directed by Qondiswa James, features the seventh cohort of trainees in their second year of training at Magnet.… Read more
By Matthew Hirsch
Bonelwa Xaka lived on the streets of Cape Town for more than five years. Now she is a peer support specialist in a “Sober Space” pilot project in Cape Town, set up to offer a place to homeless people who would be turned away from other shelters because they are drunk.… Read more
By Peter Luhanga
Community leaders in Dunoon have moved to shut down plans by anti-immigrant groups to march through the township, warning that the campaign against foreign nationals risks inflaming tensions and destabilising a fragile local economy.… Read more
By Matthew Hirsch
More than a decade since the City first earmarked the Salt River Market for social housing, it has finally been handed over to the developer, Communicare.… Read more