Further accounts of taxi drivers intimidating passengers and e-hailing drivers so that they can enforce a transport monopoly do the industry no favours. The Dunoon ...
One can’t even begin to imagine the embarrassment people feel when they have to tell others about their home being filled with human waste. Walking in your neighbourhood ...
Certain parts of the metro feel like the municipality doesn’t respect them and doesn’t care about them. The less fortunate areas in our society seem to be left to ...
Nowandile Matolo now lives in a one-bedroom shack after her house burnt down because of a fire in a nearby informal settlement. A City of Cape Town resident is going ...
Dumping. Overcrowding. People living rough in a park - and using it as a public ablution facility. It seems to be the perfect storm and it has lead to Brooklyn becoming, ...
Police say the motive for the killing of two Joe Slovo men is as yet unknown, but the fact that the killers fired at least 17 rounds and didn’t take anything from ...
The City’s stock excuse for sewer overflows seems to be that the public are putting the wrong things down their toilets. Of course, there are cases where the sewers ...
Table View residents are feeling under attack by all the buildings going up in their community and it’s difficult not to sympathise with them. A lot of them bought ...
Social housing should not simply be about putting roofs over the heads of people who need a hand up; it should be about changing their lives. It is one of the lingering ...
The country’s housing emergency has again been brought into sharp relief, this time by people occupying flats at Communicare’s Goedehoop complex in Brooklyn. These ...
It’s been close to a year since the state announced that a housing development to curb the spread of Covid-19 was in the works for the people of Dunoon. The development, ...
The Flandorp family’s relationship with Table View residents seems to get more strained each year and with each new building application. The latest plan for a private ...
The past year has already been tough enough on schoolchildren and parents without them having to endure the cruel game of musical chairs that the education authorities ...
Eskom’s response to the concerns about cracks and corrosion found in the concrete of the buildings housing Koeberg’s reactors is worrying. Had it not been for a ...
The neighbourhood scuffle over the new Edgemead dog park sounds as if it were made for the mockumentary sitcom Parks and Recreation. In the grander scheme of things ...
Last month, police used water cannons on disabled people at SASSA’s Bellville offices to get them to physically distance. What a stark contrast from the way they ...
With many businesses struggling to hold on for dear life as they battle to navigate the financial crisis brought on by one of the worst pandemics in human history, ...
It’s been nearly 14 years since South Africans first started experiencing the load shedding that is now part of our lives. It’s crazy to think that we once had this ...