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City says it has to introduce cuts due to budget constraints

By Mary-Anne Gontsana/GroundUp

Disability organisations held a picket outside the Cape Town Civic Centre on Monday against the City of Cape Town’s planned cuts to the Dial-a-Ride service.

The City announced earlier this month that from 8 September, the transport service will only be available for wheelchair users and people with severe walking impairments.… Read more

237 Social housing units planned

By Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

The Cape Town City Council has approved the sale of the “Fruit and Veg” site in the city centre adjacent to Roeland Street for social housing.

This comes eight years after municipal land between Kent and Bloemhof Streets on the border of District Six was first earmarked for affordable housing.… Read more

There is nothing random about what Israel is doing,” says Palestinian journalist.

Hundreds of people, including many journalists, marched on the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town on Sunday, protesting against Israel’s killing of journalists.

This comes after Israel killed six media workers at the al-Shifa hospital precinct in Gaza City on 10 August.… Read more

1,476 social housing units planned at 16-storey development

By Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

Six years after Founders Garden in Cape Town’s city centre was approved for social housing, the Western Cape Government has started the process of appointing a developer for the site.… Read more

Magistrate did not rule on whether damage to property was racially motivated

Attorney Gary Trappler was convicted of malicious damage to property by Magistrate Stephen Bengequla on Monday 7 July, having been found guilty of slashing the tyres of his Green Point neighbour Thandi Mgwaba’s car.… Read more

City plans to sell land to private developers at a discount

Daniel Steyn and Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

The City of Cape Town has promised to develop 12,000 affordable housing units targeted at households earning less than R32,000 a month. Many of these homes, the City believes, can be built without state subsidies.… Read more

The City of Cape Town has promised 12,000 affordable homes

The need for affordable housing in Cape Town is enormous. There are more than 400,000 people on its housing waiting list and half of households in Cape Town earn less than R20,700 a month.… Read more

But Fidelity says it is “confident that no existing laws prohibit or restrict” its private service

by Liezl Human

The recently launched private firefighting service by Fidelity ADT is “unlawful”, and no agreement is in place for it to operate in Cape Town, says the City’s Fire and Rescue Service.… Read more

Department of Public Works are to discuss alternative accommodation options with the City.

People living in the dilapidated state-owned building at 104 Darling Street remain in limbo as their urgent eviction case was once again postponed in June.

The building is owned by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, which is seeking to evict the residents, who number about 30.… Read more