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Foreign visitors vs locals — is Hill-Lewis finally addressing Cape Town’s inner-city housing squeeze?
SHORT-TERM LETTING

Foreign visitors vs locals — is Hill-Lewis finally addressing Cape Town’s inner-city housing squeeze?

Cape Town’s draft Short‑Term Letting By‑Law reclassifies many Airbnb-style rentals as commercial, raising rates and requiring registration — but will it free inner‑city housing for local renters?

By Kevin Bloom
HISTORY MAKERS

‘Springboks and All Blacks basically the same beast’ — Fitzpatrick

By Craig Ray
‘Springboks and All Blacks basically the same beast’ — Fitzpatrick
TRIBUTE

Estelle Ellis, the Eastern Cape’s fiercest voice for the voiceless, has died

By Daily Maverick
Estelle Ellis, the Eastern Cape’s fiercest voice for the voiceless, has died
VIDEO

Watch – More than 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling

By Anna Cox
Watch – More than 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling
DIPLOMATIC BUNGLE

New protocol for former presidents: Dirco aims to avoid Zuma-Gupta repeat

By Peter Fabricius
New protocol for former presidents: Dirco aims to avoid Zuma-Gupta repeat
Unpacked: Each party’s arguments in the Expropriation Act case
EXPLAINER

Unpacked: Each party’s arguments in the Expropriation Act case

By Dianne Hawker-Kalubi
Impeachment committee agrees that Ramaphosa should testify
PHALA PHALA SAGA

Impeachment committee agrees that Ramaphosa should testify

By Marianne Merten
Celebrating women in logistics: Leadership lessons from DPD South Africa’s leadership team
SPONSORED CONTENT

Celebrating women in logistics: Leadership lessons from DPD South Africa’s leadership team

By DPD South Africa
SA survive group-stage scare to set up Wafcon quarterfinal with Morocco
GRITTY COMEBACK

SA survive group-stage scare to set up Wafcon quarterfinal with Morocco

By Annemieke Thomaidis
‘We stay in shit’ — Soweto awash in raw sewage as ageing system crumbles
HEALTH HAZARD

‘We stay in shit’ — Soweto awash in raw sewage as ageing system crumbles

By Bheki C. Simelane
The Madlanga Effect — a national lesson in civic governance, the law and ethics
Moral Regeneration Moment

The Madlanga Effect — a national lesson in civic governance, the law and ethics

By Marianne Thamm
Sappi’s Q3 slump reflects a cash squeeze, not the demise of SA’s paper industry
PULP FRICTION

Sappi’s Q3 slump reflects a cash squeeze, not the demise of SA’s paper industry

By Lindsey Schutters
SPONSORED CONTENT

Access to justice needs more than principle

By North-West University
Access to justice needs more than principle
AFTER THE BELL

Why my hope is springing eternal … once again

By Stephen Grootes
Why my hope is springing eternal … once again
LOST SPECIES

The $100m-buck gamble: Should an extinct SA antelope roam the Cape again?

By Tiara Walters
The $100m-buck gamble: Should an extinct SA antelope roam the Cape again?
RAMAPHOSA FARM HEIST

R9m Phala Phala theft trial wrestles with circumstantial evidence poser

By Nonkululeko Njilo
SPONSORED CONTENT

Plan connectivity like flights: A practical guide to eSIMs for South African travellers

By Yesim
OPINIONISTA

Life in Trump’s backyard and surviving DJT’s insidious badgering of Washington, DC

By Micheline Tusenius
OPINIONISTA

Nelson Mandela Bay is bent but not broken and can still be rebuilt

By Chantal Naidoo and Denise van Huyssteen
Another Media24 restructuring won’t fix a broken market
MEDIA ANALYSIS

Another Media24 restructuring won’t fix a broken market

South Africa’s largest digital news publisher has attempted every remedy the turnaround textbook prescribes. Disposals, closures, massive headcount reduction and a digitally transformed subscription business still saw financial losses increase by 60%. If Media24 cannot break even, the problem isn’t the operating model. It is the market.

By Styli Charalambous
CARTOON

Draw the curtains

By Rico
HIDDEN LOSSES

Food waste in SA could be slashed by fixing one missing ingredient

By Nkgaugelo Kgasago and Clinton Nesengani
OPINIONISTA

US ambassador to SA finally shook the right hand

By Ofentse Donald Davhie
EXPOSED

Different name, same network — the truth about Independent Media’s ‘new’ newspaper publisher

By Rebecca Davis
Grade 1 at age 5: A policy built on unstable foundations
OPINIONISTA

Grade 1 at age 5: A policy built on unstable foundations

By Monja Boonzaier
SA electricity shake-up might plug billing gaps, but sparks will fly
ANALYSIS

SA electricity shake-up might plug billing gaps, but sparks will fly

By Stephen Grootes
Explainer: Why jet fuel and diesel are so vulnerable to price shocks
OIL MARKET JOLTS

Explainer: Why jet fuel and diesel are so vulnerable to price shocks

By Lindsey Schutters
Karoo Saloon on Route 62: How a biker bar became a rock roadhouse route
BOOK EXCERPT

Karoo Saloon on Route 62: How a biker bar became a rock roadhouse route

By Chris Marais
More coalitions are coming, with power and kingmaking the name of the game
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026 OP-ED

More coalitions are coming, with power and kingmaking the name of the game

By Susan Booysen

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