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Residents unimpressed by Cape Town’s preparations for floods

30th May 2023 Lihle Krwala 0

The city has identified 46 flood-prone informal settlements across the metro and assembled a winter task team made up of 25 city departments and external partners under the leading role of the Disaster Risk Management Centre.

Ordinary working people are being priced out of Accra and pushed into inadequate housing

8th May 2023 Equal Times 0

Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of […]

Communities demand an end to loadshedding

9th February 2023 Mzi Velapi 0

About 500 residents of Cape Town held a speak-out a few metres away from the Cape Town city hall where the president was delivering the state of the nation address.

Qolani sues the City of Cape Town for R1,4- million

8th February 2023 Mzi Velapi 0

Residents of particularly informal settlements founded on vacant land during the 2020-2022 lockdown, say that they are subjected to constant harassment by law enforcement officers.

Families and survivors of Jukskei River drowning shocked and traumatised

8th December 2022 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

The rainy season regularly claims victims from among the people living on the banks of the Jukskei River in Alexandra but never have so many people drowned on the same day.

Backyarders in Stellenbosch want houses or might occupy the golf course

24th November 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Stellenbosch backyard dwellers declare that they have exhausted peaceful engagement with the municipality

River Club development highlights questionable process by City of Cape Town

27th October 2022 Lalou Meltzer Jens Horber 0

The authors argue that the City of Cape Town has not been an impartial authority in giving approval to the development.

Climate activists call for “system change”

26th September 2022 Vincent Lali 0

The climate activists called out the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy for being the biggest stumbling block to a just transition from fossil fuels.

Fire rages through Joe Slovo in Langa

17th April 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Joe Slovo informal settlement residents near the N2 Gateway Housing project were removing rubble and looking for items to salvage on Sunday morning.

‘We trip over dead bodies here at night’ – New Monwabisi Park

17th March 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Faced with crime and violence on a daily basis, residents of New Monwabisi Park complain that the lack of services contribute to crime in the area.

Homeless man killed by City cop to be buried on Saturday

19th January 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Funeral arrangements are underway for a homeless man who was shot and killed by a City of Cape Town law enforcement officer.

Cape Town’s busiest railway still a long way from restarting

26th November 2021 Siyabonga Kamnqa 0

Prasa says the plan is to have the Central Line operating again by next year December.

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