Holding power to account
The legal challenge to the City of Cape Town’s latest budget brought by the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) is based on a selective reading of the Constitution and the Municipal Systems Act, argues Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.… Read more
Cape Town’s new Invested in Hope budget, which paves the way for spending almost R40-billion over three years, is under fire from commercial property owners, who have approached the court to declare parts of it unlawful.… Read more
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
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
Refugees living in a large tent on government land at Wingfield in Maitland have vowed to fight any attempt to evict them.… Read more
African environment ministers meet in Kenya next week for the 20th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment.… Read more
It might be assumed, particularly given his generation, that the brawling, bullfighting, big-game-fishing, larger-than-life soldier and Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway smoked.
But in the biography Papa Hemingway, which focusses on the last decades of his life, A.E.… Read more
Hot from its run at the National Arts Festival (NAF) in Makhanda, Durban-based performer and comedian Ben Voss will keep asking his audiences if at 50, would anyone still want to watch him? … Read more
Liwa Ekimakingaï sits atop his grave, having been hurled there by a cyclone that sucked him out of the earth. At only 24-years-old, and wearing an orange crepe jacket, fluorescent-green shirt and purple flared trousers, Liwa realises he has died, and has been dreaming of his death.… Read more
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