The manner of Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’ nudge-nudge, wink-wink, I shouldn’t really be telling you this announcement that the City was now considering selling the Good Hope Centre to a Muslim institution, instead of a church, was very disappointing.
HILL-LEWIS APPROACHES GOOD HOPE CENTRE SALE LIKE A GAME OF MONOPOLY Read More »
The killing of seven people in a pair of mass shootings on the Cape Flats on Wednesday night once again gruesomely underlines the tale of two mutually exclusive Cape Towns: One that wins global awards as among the finest places on earth, and the other where living conditions and public safety are on a par with the worst and most dangerous ghettoes in the world.
CAPE TOWN MASS KILLINGS UNDERLINE TALE OF TWO CITIES – AGAIN Read More »
The Orwellian over regulation of the City of Cape Town has just taken its next step by telling residents they may no longer feed wild birds in their own gardens. Only caged animals qualify. Free birds, apparently, are a bylaw violation. And if you feed these birds, you are at risk of facing a penalty.
THE CITY THAT POLICES YOUR BIRDFEEDER Read More »
Tony Leon’s lobbying of politicians on behalf of private sector clients cannot be termed “State Capture” unless it can be proven that his clients were inordinately successful in winning government tenders or dictating government policy.
HILL-LEWIS BEST PLACED TO REVEAL EXTENT OF TONY LEON’S LOBBYING SUCCESS Read More »
The Public Protector’s Report, released today, confirms in binding, constitutional terms what residents of Langa Flats and Khayelitsha have said for years: that the DA-run City of Cape Town has failed to deliver the basic municipal services it is constitutionally obliged to provide.
The City of Cape Town must apply the humiliating lessons it received from the Constitutional Court in the Tafelberg School matter last week to its proposed sale of the iconic Good Hope Centre.
LESSONS FOR GOOD HOPE CENTRE SALE FROM CONCOURT’S TAFELBERG JUDGEMENT Read More »
In July 2017, in my capacity as City of Cape Town Mayco member for Transport and Urban Development, I announced the identification of 10 City-owned sites in the inner city, Salt River and Woodstock “to be used for affordable housing”.
CAPE TOWN’S SMARMY RESPONSE TO CONCOURT’S TAFELBERG KLAP REVEALS TRUE COLOURS Read More »
The Constitutional Court has dismantled a central pillar of the DA’s policy to maintain spatial injustice in Cape Town, ordering that the fact that public land has a high value should not preclude it from being used to address governments’ constitutional obligations to transformation.
CONCOURT ORDERS CAPE TOWN TO SCRAP APARTHEID SPATIAL PLAN Read More »
The City of Cape Town is making it progressively less affordable for ordinary residents to live here, by choice, while its own books show it doesn’t need to.
CAPE TOWN BUDGET MK II: OVER-EXTRACTIVE AND UNDER-EXPLAINED Read More »
On Tuesday, 9 June 2026, the Democratic Alliance (DA) placed a Western Cape Constitution Amendment Bill on the agenda of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament for consideration today.