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Cape Town City views from the harbour

CT rental tariff poses a dilemma

Increasing fees alone does not automatically fix affordability

Expansion needed: Supporters of the sale of the Cape Town International Convention Centre argue that if the
City continues to own it, the funding obligation to grow it falls partly on the public purse. Photo: Discott

Why the City of Cape Town selling its real estate is not as simple as it looks

Selling too much public property now could limit future opportunities for social housing, community facilities or public projects that only the state can deliver

Ubuntu challenges the dominant views that dehumanise, isolate, stigmatise and exclude those living with disabilitiesPhoto: File

Cape Town’s Dial-a-Ride realigned to build universal access

The service for people with disabilities was never designed as a permanent transport solution

Hout Bay’s marine environment is threatened by pharmaceutical and personal care product compounds that have accumulated in marine life, even kilometres from pollution sources, University of Cape Town researchers have found.

Pharmaceuticals found in Hout Bay mussels

Medication and personal care products have accumulated in mussels that are far from the sewage outlet and river mouths

The City of Cape Town’s changes to its Dial-a-Ride service means people with disabilities won’t have transport to any other place than work during peak hours. Photo: File

Cutting mobility: Cape Town’s Dial-a-Ride ‘realignment’ false economy

Employment isn’t possible without movement, education requires reliable, safe transport and autonomy, dignity and safety are non-negotiables

Growing reliance on military-grade surveillance has drawn concern from civil society and privacy advocates.

Watching from above: Surveillance in Cape Town

As Cape Town continues its investment in digital security infrastructure, the challenge lies in balancing innovation with accountability, and enforcement with the protection of fundamental rights

Residents say rental prices have increased drastically and accuse  authorities of making the city a tourist destination at the expense of locals. (Getty Images)

Cape Town locals want tax on digital nomads to balance high housing costs

Residents say rental prices have increased drastically and accuse authorities of making the city a tourist destination at the expense of locals

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Unlock the potential of open data portals for SA’s cities

South Africa’s metros can be improved when this information is made publicly available

Photo byPer-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Unequal spending shows that the City of Cape Town is not pro-poor

When the municipality allocates its budget, it spends proportionally far more on the rich than the poor areas

Data governance provides evidence-based decision-making that improves the quality of service delivery

Without an effective data governance strategy, decisions are nothing but guesses

Data governance provides evidence-based decision-making that improves the quality of service delivery

The GGA team at GGA’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

GGA 10 Year Celebration

The next GGA milestone will hopefully be marked by wins against corruption

Cape fur seal. Image by Tess Gridley/Sea Search

Unprecedented rabies outbreak among Cape Fur Seals in Cape Town

A committee has been set up to establish the scale and extent of the outbreak along the Cape coast

Firefighters battle a blaze on Signal Hill in Cape Town. Wildfires are likely to become frequent. Photo: Rodger Bosch/Getty Images

Cape Town transport infrastructure at high risk of flooding, fires

With severe weather events brought on by climate change, new analysis shows that 80% of Capetonians live in high risk area

Construction work has already begun to transform the River Club into a site where Amazon wants to situate its headquarters in Cape Town. (Photo by Gallo Images/ER Lombard)

Pitfalls of the ‘mallification’ of our cities

It seem that massive corporations and property developers control Cape Town and other centres, with big land parcels going their way for low prices

Faeza Meyer, African Water Commons Collective founder, collecting fresh water for her family from a pipe left out at a neighbour’s plot in Silvertown near Malmesbury. (Photo: David Harrison)

Western Cape’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ entrench ‘water apartheid’

The City of Cape Town has installed meters that limit the amount of water people use but it is hurting the poor, who use far less water than the wealthy

Ganglands: Competition for territory and battles between rival gangs in areas on the Cape Flats such as Bishop Lavis (above) and Valhalla Park have waged for years. South Africa is high on the Global Organised Crime Index for drugs, kidnapping and extortion.

The clash of the Numbers gangs

How the 26s, 27s and 28s prison gangs got their name, and how street gangs usurped them

Number’s up: Alleged Cape Town gang leader Ralph Stanfield and his wife Nicole Johnson were arrested last year on charges of theft, robbery and fraud, but an acting police station commander’s behaviour suggests that gangs have succeeded in infiltrating some police structures.

Station commander investigated for links to crime kingpin

There is ‘growing concern’ about increasing levels of gangsterism and organised crime in the Western Cape

An endangered Western Leopard Toad calls during the winter breeding season in Skilpadsvlei, Kommetjie. A new Noordhoek road link could drive the species to local extinction, environmentalists warn. Archive photo: John Yeld

Court challenge to Cape road extension that threatens endangered toads

A section of the new road will run along the edge of a 50 hectare wetland and affect three breeding ponds used by the toad