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Month: September 2025

Pro-poor budget: Struggle to get municipal subsidies

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Subsidies on water, sanitation, and refuse charges for indigent households and homes caring for vulnerable people have not necessarily been automatically applied since 1 July

  • Homes catering for the disabled are supposed to benefit from rates rebates and service charge subsidies under the City’s new 2025/26 budget.
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Moffie: a near perfect reminder of indomitability

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Following an acclaimed London run, this South African story needs to be seen at the Baxter

There were sergeants in the apartheid army who could bark out 30 or more words in an unbroken stream to create an extended insult involving bodily functions, body parts, bodily fluids, animals, familial relationships, and sex.… Read more

Pack light, move fast

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To get straight to the nuts and bolts of it, as it were, the Cape car community lives to haal uit en wys, as it is said. What that means is bringing your motor to the track and pitting your power against others, and no one is to be underestimated.… Read more

Justice delayed: police torture trial postponed for seven months

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The hearing was originally set down for July 2024 but will now only be heard in April 2026

By Mary-Anne Gontsana/GroundUp

The trial in the Mowbray torture case involving three police officers will only be heard in April next year.

The case has been postponed eight times between 25 July 2024 and 19 September 2025 “at the behest of the defence”, according to the state.… Read more

Silver lining in the Table Mountain fire

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Aliens are easier to remove, but the window is small

By Liezl Human/GroundUp

“Alien plants are relentless, but we are relentless as well,” says Raymond Chinembiri, team leader at the Sugarbird Project, an organisation dedicated to removing invasive plants in the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP).… Read more

October gig guide – and the last week of September

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There’s like, some really good stuff happening this month.

Theatre

Last few days of Moffie at the Baxter Theatre. André Carl van der Merwe’s bruising coming-of-age novel, adapted by Philip Rademeyer and directed by Greg Karvellas. Set in 1979, a young, gay conscript (played by David Viviers) is sent to fight in the Border War.… Read more

National film foundation falters as leadership churns

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The National Film and Video Foundation has had six CEOs in two-and-a-half years

  • At a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee meeting last week questions were raised about the procedures involved in appointing the current NFVF board and acting CEOs.
  • Department of Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie was accused by MPs of destabilising the NFVF for political ends.
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City pauses decision to cut Dial-a-Ride services

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Settlement reached between the municipality and the Western Cape Network on Disability

By Tania Broughton and Mary-Anne Gontsana

The City of Cape Town has paused its plans to significantly cut back on its Dial-a-Ride service for disabled people.

The municipality reached a settlement agreement with the Western Cape Network on Disability on Friday, which was made an order of court by Acting Judge Wallis Roux.… Read more

Disability activists disrupt City of Cape Town transport meeting over Dial-a-Ride cuts

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Western Cape Network on Disability is challenging the cuts in court

On Thursday morning, disability activists disrupted an Urban Mobility Portfolio Committee meeting at the Civic Centre over planned cuts to the City of Cape Town’s Dial-a-Ride service.

Among them were users of the transport service and representatives from Disability Revolution, QuadPara Association of South Africa, and #UniteBehind.… Read more