Holding power to account
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
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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