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The land value of the site ranks “among the highest in the southern hemisphere”.

• The City of Cape Town has approved the sale of more than four hectares of prime land traversing Green Point and Sea Point.
• The site currently includes the Sea Point library and civic centre, which are to be retained.

A return to the land is in sight for scores of families forcibly removed during apartheid

Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

A sod-turning ceremony for the construction of 86 homes in Protea Village, Bishopscourt, was attended by land claimants, community members and government officials on Tuesday 11 March.… Read more

About 30 people have been living at 104 Darling Street for more than two decades

Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

Unathi Mangali’s daughter was a baby when they moved into 104 Darling Street in the Cape Town city centre twenty years ago. Today her daughter is 22 years old.… Read more

Life-sized animal puppet project to raise awareness about dangers of accelerating climate change

Ashraf Hendricks/Groundup

Hundreds of life-sized animal puppets will be performing in cities from Central Africa to the northern tip of Norway to highlight the loss of biodiversity caused by rapid, human-induced climate change.… Read more

A pending Constitutional Court judgment on Tafelberg may have far-reaching consequences for City planning

• In 2015, the Western Cape Government announced it would sell the Tafelberg School site in Sea Point for R135-million.

• Housing activists then launched a legal battle to stop the sale and compel the province to consider affordable housing before selling off state-owned land to private parties.

The Service Level Plan gives the City oversight over annual performance plans, station revitalisation, and the introduction of more train sets

The City of Cape Town and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) have signed a Service Level Plan (SLP) following court action, threats of an intergovernmental dispute, and more than a year of negotiations.… Read more

The City of Cape Town has told Clayton Smith to leave De Waal Park where he has lived for 13 years.

Clayton Smith has called De Waal Park in Cape Town home for more than a decade. He lives in a small storeroom with his two dogs, Peaches and Aisha.… Read more

“We’re not retrenching teachers. We’re reducing posts,” says WCED head

The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) came under fire in Parliament on Tuesday over its plan to reduce teaching posts.

In August, the WCED said the number of teacher posts would be reduced by 2,407 for the 2025 school year due to a R3.8-billion budget shortfall over the next three years.… Read more

The SA government is submitting evidence to the International Court of Justice to prove Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

About 50 people gathered outside the Western Cape High Court on Monday morning to support South Africa’s additional submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on genocide in Gaza.… Read more

After seven years the City of Cape Town and the hospital occupiers are beginning to find common ground, but difficulties lie ahead

By Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

In 2017 a handful of housing activists organised the occupation of the old, out-of-use Woodstock Hospital.… Read more