A prime chunk of Milnerton real estate acquired nine years ago by the City of Cape Town specifically to alleviate overcrowding in Dunoon is now being sold to a private developer for a fat profit without the City having built a single home.
PROFIT OVER PEOPLE: CAPE TOWN BETRAYS DUNOON FOR R71M PIECES OF SILVER Read More »
On the face of it, AfriForum and the MK Party had nothing in common besides a taste for litigation to vent their disdain for the policies of South Africa’s government – before anti-immigrant organisation March & March raised its profile and befriended both.
WHAT DO MARCH & MARCH’S RELATIONSHIPS WITH AFRIFORUM AND MK MEAN? Read More »
The GOOD Party expresses its profound sadness at the tragic passing of Cllr Aubrey Tsengwa, former Mayor of Knysna and a serving ANC Ward Councillor and leader, who was fatally shot last night.
GOOD CALLS FOR JUSTICE FOLLOWING KILLING OF CLLR AUBREY TSENGWA Read More »
The fire that ripped through the informal settlement known as BM Section on New Year’s Day in 2013 killed five residents, destroyed about 1,000 shacks and left 3,000–4,000 people without any shelter.
13 YEARS AFTER DEVASTATING KHAYELITSHA FIRE: NO LAND, NO HOMES, NO PLAN Read More »
DA Federal Finance Chairperson, funder and MP, Mark Burke, is unfit to serve on Parliament’s Standing Committees on Finance and/or Appropriations and Public Accounts.
DA’S MARK BURKE MUST BE WITHDRAWN FROM PARLIAMENT’S FINANCE OVERSIGHT STRUCTURES Read More »
The DA is on a privatisation roll, dismissing its constitutional obligations to address spatial injustice, selling off well-located publicly owned properties in Cape Town, and championing the out-sourcing of basic service provision in dysfunctional municipalities.
DA CAN’T PRIVATISE STATE’S CONSITUTIONAL DUTIES TO EFFECT SOCIAL JUSTICE Read More »
Cape Town’s law-enforcement/gangster collusion crisis needs national spotlight too
EVOLVE MADLANGA COMMISSION INTO PERMANENT NATIONAL POLICE INTEGRITY TRIBUNAL Read More »
National Treasury’s decision to appeal a Pretoria High Court ruling ordering government to increase and expand access to the Social Relief of Distress Grant is a disgraceful denial of the State’s constitutional obligations to provide income support to destitute people.
TREASURY’S ANTI-SRD GRANT APPEAL DENIES STATE’S CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY Read More »
When the City of Cape Town announced it was disposing of the Bellville Velodrome, Africa’s only Olympic-standard indoor cycling track, it sought to placate cyclists by announcing the redevelopment of the cycling track at Vygieskraal Stadium.
BLUE LIES CAPE TOWN TOLD TO JUSTIFY DISPOSAL OF VELODROME REVEALED Read More »
Instead of drafting a short-term letting by-law designed to contribute to alleviating the crisis of unaffordability in the Cape Town housing market, the only beneficiary of the proposed by-law is the City itself, which will increase its income by charging slightly higher rates.