Holding power to account
Steve Kretzmann 
One of Cape Town’s favourite comedians has become a power-drill-wielding killer. Rob van Vuuren, known for extracting belly laughs from the audience with his tales of family life and acting travails, is starring in the international schlock horror Slumber Party Massacre.… Read more
Cape Town’s three most popular inland water bodies – Rietvlei, Zandvlei and Zeekoevlei – are all within nature reserves managed by the City.… Read more
The DA’s mayoral candidate for Cape Town, Geordin Hill-Lewis, was given short thrift by concerned citizens when he suggested Zeekoevlei is polluted with sewage partly due to people blocking sewers with foreign objects.… Read more
Thousands of police-issue guns – the made-in-South-Africa 9mm Z88 – have been sold to Cape Town gangs since the mid-2000s to early 2015. The flood of guns to gangs saw the murder rate in the city climb from a low of about 41 per 100,000 people in 2009, to about 63 per 100,000 by 2015.… Read more
The electric version of the Formula 1 Grand Prix – Formula E – will be racing around the streets of Green Point and Mouille Point in February next year, and the City is ponying up R48m to make it happen.… Read more
The rosy-cheeked, fresh faced young man who is likely to be Cape Town’s next mayor, looked and sounded out of place as he launched his campaign from behind a blue DA-branded lectern set up in the middle of a frayed street in Bonteheuwel on Sunday 29 August.… Read more
When City of Cape Town Speaker Felicity Purchase congratulated Councilor Roberto Quintas on being appointed as the new mayoral committee member for transport during the full council meeting of 19 August, she commented that he has big shoes to fill.… Read more
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