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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

As global temperature records continue to be broken, cities need to move fast to prevent inhabitants dying from heat stress. Planting trees seems the simplest solution.

As global heating takes hold, Cape Town appears to be losing trees in the urban environment faster than they are being replaced, and the City’s Urban Forest Policy target falls far short of international recommendations. … 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

But Prasa denies it did anything

Attorney Jonty Cogger asked the Cape High Court on Friday to instruct the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to return the building material confiscated from 38 people who had been living on land along Old Marine Drive on the Cape Town Foreshore.… Read more

Elderly homeless man stabbed by guard during apparent unlawful eviction

Scores of homeless people who have been living next to Old Marine Drive on the Cape Town Foreshore for about a decade had their shelters destroyed by PRASA Protection Services and contracted security guards last week.… Read more

City transport boss is hopeful the new transport minister will support plans for Metrorail to become a municipal responsibility

• Rail, the backbone of public transport in Cape Town, has been broken for a decade under PRASA’s management.

• Government policy allows passenger rail to be devolved from PRASA to the metropolitan municipality.