Holding power to account
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
When Jackie Cruze first started chatting with Thaariq de Klerk about his wine-red Honda CRX, he didn’t realise he was about to get a front-row seat to one of the most underground trends in local car culture, the legendary K-swap.… Read more
The need for affordable housing in Cape Town is enormous. There are more than 400,000 people on its housing waiting list and half of households in Cape Town earn less than R20,700 a month.… Read more
by Liezl Human
The recently launched private firefighting service by Fidelity ADT is “unlawful”, and no agreement is in place for it to operate in Cape Town, says the City’s Fire and Rescue Service.… Read more
Music
The Two Oceans Aquarium and Texx and the City continue with After Dark 2025, a stripped-down series of performances throughout winter. The second iteration, on 30 July, includes the band Visitor’s Centre, and singer-songwriter Carla Franco, winner of the 2024 Texx and the City Band or Bust competition.… Read more
A chance meeting in Barrydale had Jackie Cruze stumbling upon a rare rat rod of rust and rebellion, parked with a rough-and-ready bearing.
Identifying the owner was straightforward. Div de Villiers has a similar disposition to the rat rod genre: creative, unruly, a collector and a raconteur.… Read more
A play with sexual encounters as its premise is likely to read very differently today, then it did when first written in 1897.
Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde (originally Reigen in German) is made up of ten scenes, each one being a sexual encounter, but involving a character from the previous scene.… Read more
The draw of the old-world on the youth of today is a strong one. We hanker for an era where things seemed simpler. Inflation was lower, prices were cheaper, produce was fresh, and time was valued. Whether it was time to pray, time to rejoice, time to work or time to rest, there was always the ability to switch off and immerse yourself completely in your task.… Read more
People living in the dilapidated state-owned building at 104 Darling Street remain in limbo as their urgent eviction case was once again postponed in June.
The building is owned by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, which is seeking to evict the residents, who number about 30.… Read more
The development of social housing at Cape Town’s historic Salt River Market is a step closer to fruition after a required Heritage Impact Assessment was approved earlier this month.… Read more