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Property owners are misreading the law, argues Cape Town mayor

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Commercial property owners are challenging the City’s budget in court, but the mayor argues they are selectively interpreting the law

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

Artscape social housing development moves ahead

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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

Local lawyer guilty of tyre slashing

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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

To health, and rejuvenated taste buds

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A sophisticated, silky-smooth L’Avenir red is recommended next to a crackling fire

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

Saffa’s Aussi run makes for comedy gold

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Two award-winning shows are coming to Cape Town after cutting their teeth at the National Arts Festival

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