ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS

The plight of Hout Bay’s Imizamo Yethu residents to tackle an illegal and hazardous rubbish dump site

7 min

2

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

BUSH AND SHOVE

Local conservation groups feel ‘undermined’ by Cape Town’s biodiversity management branch

7 min

1

By Kristin Engel

POLITICAL RIFT

Who exactly is Lennox Ntsodo, the man accusing Zuma’s MK party of forging signatures?

5 min

9

By Velani Ludidi

CAPE TOWN HOUSING CRISIS

‘When is Blikkiesdorp’s pain going to end?’ — Residents tell of broken promises and dire conditions

7 min

0

By Vincent Cruywagen

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

SA’s blue-light spending spree on political VIPs ‘is jeopardising visible policing and crime-fighting'

9 min

13

By Vincent Cruywagen

LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR

South Africans have guns pointed at their heads while politicians are given more VIP bodyguards

4 min

11

By Sukasha Singh

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Security boost for Cape Town city manager after blacklisting of company owned by 28s gang case-accused

5 min

26

By Velani Ludidi

COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS

Western Cape communities reel from effects of storm, Gift of the Givers responds in 17 areas

8 min

3

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

RUBBISH RUCKUS

Cape Town contract waste collection workers down tools over unpaid wages dating to January

3 min

8

By Velani Ludidi

LAW AND DISORDER

Cape Town investigator Talmakkies dodges critical disciplinary hearing day with retirement announcement

3 min

2

By Caryn Dolley

ECOSYSTEM DAMAGE CONTROL

Efforts to replace plastic water sachets in running races gather pace

9 min

5

By Julia Evans

ALIEN INVASION

Winning the war against the aggressive water hyacinth - A Cape Town community’s tireless effort

7 min

3

By Kristin Engel

FIGHT FOR HOUSING

Bromwell Street evictions — ConCourt justices raise spectre of ‘spatial apartheid’ and ‘District Six form of displacement’

7 min

13

By Takudzwa Pongweni

CAPE INFERNOS PART 5

Courage amid chaos: From Cape to Canada — how SA firefighters risk all to battle the blazes

7 min

4

By Kristin Engel and Victoria O’Regan

CAPE INFERNOS PART 4

Navy’s land management neglect in the Cape poses risk of disastrous wildfires, say experts

5 min

5

By Victoria O'Regan and Kristin Engel

TRANSPORT STRIFE OP-ED

Revitalisation of CT’s Metrorail Central line on track with potential for greater commuter access

5 min

0

By Ntsika Xuba

CAPE INFERNOS PART 3

Fingers pointed at City of Cape Town for allegedly not maintaining firebreaks

9 min

7

By Victoria O'Regan and Kristin Engel

MOTHER CITY CRIME

Lobby group calls for beefed-up Table Mountain security as muggings continue

4 min

4

By Samane Jnr Marks

CAPITAL SPENDING

Fixed investments – new SA projects in 2023 down 29% in value from previous year

3 min

1

By Neesa Moodley

HARASSMENT ORDER

Cape Town housing ‘mediator’ interdicted from accessing buildings, making threats

5 min

8

By Caryn Dolley

PHOTO ESSAY

Sona 2024: Riches and rags — images tell the tale of two South Africas

3 min

0

By Tamsin Metelerkamp and Kyra Wilkinson