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Jonty Cogger

Dr Jonty Cogger is a public interest attorney at the Centre for Environmental Rights whose work focuses on using legal strategies to challenge pollution and climate change.

Latest Work

$Why lifting the Karoo fracking moratorium is a risky move$

SHALE GAS OP-ED

7 July 2026

Why lifting the Karoo fracking moratorium is a risky move

Jonty Cogger and Paul Wani Lado

5 min

Bromwell ruling highlights urgent need for housing reform in Cape Town's displacement crisis

SPATIAL APARTHEID

4 February 2025

Bromwell ruling highlights urgent need for housing reform in Cape Town's displacement crisis

Jonty Cogger

4 min

OPINIONISTA

17 December 2024

Time to rethink the punitive approach to homelessness of Cape Town’s Safe Spaces

Jonty Cogger

4 min

Wolwerivier Emergency Housing Camp is hell on Earth, 32km from heart of Cape Town

SPATIAL AWARENESS OP-ED

24 January 2024

Wolwerivier Emergency Housing Camp is hell on Earth, 32km from heart of Cape Town

Jonty Cogger

5 min

OPINIONISTA

9 October 2023

What’s worse, the 1951 Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act or the 2021 City of Cape Town Streets By-law?

Jonty Cogger

4 min

The meaning of a home — is it just where you lay your head?

ROOMS WITH NO VIEW OP-ED

8 June 2023

The meaning of a home — is it just where you lay your head?

Jonty Cogger

4 min

OPINIONISTA

7 May 2023

Being homeless is not a crime — conflating criminality and homelessness is a dangerous stereotype

Jonty Cogger

4 min

OPINIONISTA

24 October 2022

DA amendments to PIE Act — An attempt to criminalise a lack of housing in a housing crisis

Jonty Cogger

5 min

OPINIONISTA

4 April 2022

The Western Cape government has no excuse not to develop social housing on the Tafelberg property

Jonty Cogger

5 min

How inclusive housing can make Cape Town a better place

GROUNDUP

16 October 2019

How inclusive housing can make Cape Town a better place

Jonty Cogger

3 min

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Latest Work

Why lifting the Karoo fracking moratorium is a risky move

Bromwell ruling highlights urgent need for housing reform in Cape Town's displacement crisis

Time to rethink the punitive approach to homelessness of Cape Town’s Safe Spaces

Wolwerivier Emergency Housing Camp is hell on Earth, 32km from heart of Cape Town

What’s worse, the 1951 Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act or the 2021 City of Cape Town Streets By-law?

The meaning of a home — is it just where you lay your head?

Being homeless is not a crime — conflating criminality and homelessness is a dangerous stereotype

DA amendments to PIE Act — An attempt to criminalise a lack of housing in a housing crisis

The Western Cape government has no excuse not to develop social housing on the Tafelberg property

How inclusive housing can make Cape Town a better place